A University of Pittsburgh student has been charged after allegedly making a bomb threat against Wesley W. Posvar Hall on Tuesday, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Eden Schwartz, a 19-year-old Pitt student, has been charged with terroristic threats and threats to use weapons of mass destruction, according to the criminal complaint. She is accused of posting an Instagram story that was captioned, “On my way! to bomb the statistics department.” The criminal complaint said Schwartz is enrolled in a statistics class located within Posvar Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to an alert from the university’s Emergency Notification Service that went out at 3:57 p.m. on Tuesday, the University of Pittsburgh Police Department was investigating threats made toward a department inside Posvar Hall. The building at South Bouquet and Roberto Clemente Drive was then evacuated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a 5:45 p.m. update, the university said officers cleared the hall, which was reopened, and normal activities resumed. A university spokesperson said K-9s searched and cleared the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Because this is an active criminal case, the University will have no further comment,” the spokesperson added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident prompted a large police presence that impacted traffic, and people were asked to avoid the area. The university’s police department, along with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, learned of the alleged bomb threat from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s almost like we’ve gotten used to it in this day and age,” Pitt student Logan Krock told KDKA-TV. “It’s crazy, but it’s not that odd of a scenario. It happens all the time.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posvar Hall houses the College of General Studies, the Office of Veterans Services, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the University Center for International Studies, plus the social sciences departments of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, according to Pitt’s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is the largest academic-use-only building on campus and sits on the former site of Forbes Field.<\/p>\n Meghan Schiller<\/a><\/p>\n contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n