{"id":300328,"date":"2026-05-19T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:52:08","slug":"texas-minor-in-custody-in-connection-with-bomb-threat-at-oxford-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300328\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas minor in custody in connection with bomb threat at Oxford Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OXFORD, Miss. (WMC) &#8211; The Oxford Police Department reports that an unfounded bomb threat that resulted in the evacuation of Oxford Middle School on Tuesday has been traced to a minor in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the suspect, who has not been identified, is now in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident began with a phone call to the front office at Oxford Middle from a blocked number, according to police. The caller reportedly gave a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">School resource officers immediately placed the school on lockdown. The school was evacuated as police and K-9 units searched the campus for any threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say they were able to trace the blocked phone number to Texas through investigative techniques. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Miss. (WMC) &#8211; The Oxford Police Department reports that an unfounded bomb threat that resulted in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109088,109090,24962,19471,254,1511,109089,24961,24957,6631,24960,24955,1975,8556,59993,11721,24954,5773,24959,24958,24963,8094,4375,24964,101,27,29,28,24965,24956,24951,24953,24952],"class_list":["post-300328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-active-shooter","tag-all-clear","tag-bartlett","tag-bomb-threat","tag-breaking-news","tag-child","tag-clearance","tag-collierville","tag-east-arkansas","tag-evacuation","tag-germantown","tag-i-40","tag-juvenile","tag-k-9","tag-lockdown","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-minor","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-search","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-suspect","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}