A 15-year-old boy is behind bars after making a bomb threat to a Tampa high school, police say.<\/p>\n
The Tampa Police Department said it was notified of a threat made to Middleton High School just after midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n
Investigators learned a student sent a text message on Wednesday from the suspect that read: “Middleton bomb,” “Tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The Tampa Police Bomb Squad conducted a sweep of the school campus early Thursday morning to make sure there was no active threat prior to staff and students arriving.<\/p>\n
School arrival was not impacted.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to identify the teenage suspect and arrested him at his Riverview home just before 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
He was transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center and charged with written or electronic threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.<\/p>\n
TPD noted that the 15-year-old is not a student with Middleton High School.<\/p>\n
“Threatening the safety of a school is not a joke; it is a felony,\u201d Chief Lee Bercaw said in a statement. \u201cOur detectives worked through the night to ensure students and teachers could arrive at a safe campus this morning. We have zero tolerance for this behavior, and we will continue to hold anyone who disrupts the peace of our educational community fully accountable.”<\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay News is not identifying the teenager due to their age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy is behind bars after making a bomb threat to a Tampa high school, police say.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4920,71313,65041,135,137,136,3793],"class_list":{"0":"post-225134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-bomb-threat","9":"tag-chad-robertson","10":"tag-middleton-high-school","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-tampa-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}