{"id":137565,"date":"2026-03-13T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:47:07","slug":"police-respond-to-west-deptford-high-school-after-reported-bomb-threat-district-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137565\/","title":{"rendered":"Police respond to West Deptford High School after reported bomb threat, district says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and bomb-sniffing dogs were called out to West Deptford High School on Friday for a reported bomb threat, and students were ordered to remain inside during an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the high school on Crown Point Road Friday afternoon, where several West Deptford police and Gloucester County Sheriff&#8217;s Office vehicles could be seen. An officer and a dog were roaming the athletic fields and parking lots as the dog sniffed around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a &#8216;bomb threat&#8217; at the high school, we initiated a district-wide hold today,&#8221; Superintendent Brian Gismondi said in a note to parents. &#8220;We want to clarify that the concern was limited to the high school only; however, we extended the hold to all schools out of an abundance of caution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gismondi said police patrol cars will be checking all district campuses throughout the day &#8220;to make sure our students and staff feel completely safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to police and the Gloucester County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for more information.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and bomb-sniffing dogs were called out to West Deptford High School on Friday for a reported bomb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15365,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-137565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gloucester-county","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}