{"id":226695,"date":"2026-04-10T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:32:12","slug":"bomb-threat-reported-at-southwest-miami-dade-school-determined-to-be-swatting-call-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226695\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat reported at southwest Miami-Dade school determined to be swatting call, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM<\/p>\n<p>Bomb threat reported at school <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said they responded to a reported bomb threat at Westwood Christian School in southwest Miami-Dade on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/10\/reportan-amenaza-de-bomba-en-escuela-del-suroeste-de-miami-dade-autoridades-determinan-que-fue-llamada-falsa-tipo-swatting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/10\/reportan-amenaza-de-bomba-en-escuela-del-suroeste-de-miami-dade-autoridades-determinan-que-fue-llamada-falsa-tipo-swatting\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said MDSO deputies were called to the area of Southwest 58th Street and Southwest 120th Avenue in the Kendale Lakes neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pre-kindergarten\u201312 school is located near the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the school at 2:53 p.m., where deputies and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews were at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said deputies conducted a comprehensive security sweep of the campus while following established safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">First responders later concluded the sweep and determined the call was a swatting incident. Students and staff have since returned to the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM Bomb threat reported at school MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Deputies with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-226695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226695","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=226695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}