DC Teen Charged After Bomb Threats Made Against DC Schools

WASHINGTON, DC — D.C. police have arrested a 16-year-old boy from Southeast D.C. and charged him with making terroristic threats in connection with multiple bomb threats that were made at several schools Wednesday that led to evacuations, the police said Thursday.

The bomb threats at the schools came just one day after second gentleman Doug Emhoff was rushed out of Dunbar High School over a similar threat.

D.C. police said they are continuing to investigate the bomb threats with federal police agencies.

On Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Department officers investigated threats at Dunbar High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Ron Brown High School, KIPP DC College Preparatory, IDEA Public Charter School, Seed Public Charter School, Friendship Public Charter School and McKinley Tech High School.

All the schools were cleared by officers. No threats were found.

On Tuesday, Emhoff was speaking at Dunbar High School for an event commemorating Black History Month when he was removed from the building after the bomb threat.

A D.C. police official told The Washington Post that investigators do not think the bomb threat made to Dunbar on Tuesday is related to recent threats made to Howard University and other historically Black colleges and universities.

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