Cherokee DFCS Office Back Open Following Bomb Threat

Editor’s note: this story has been updated.

An hour after it received a bomb threat over the phone, the Cherokee County Division of Family and Children’s Services office has been “cleared” by law enforcement and has resumed normal operations, the Canton Police Department said on its Facebook page.

“No bomb was discovered and the building is now open for service,” the agency posted just after 11 a.m. Friday.

The threat was called into the office on Lamar Haley Parkway around 10 a.m. Friday morning, Canton police said wrote on its Facebook page.

A command center was established at R.T. Jones Memorial Library by police and fire officials, and a K-9 with the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office was brought in to conduct an interior and exterior sweep of the facility, said Canton police spokesperson Pacer Cordry.

Hasty Elementary School, which is located near the office on Brown Industrial Parkway, and other businesses in the area were also been notified of the incident, he stated.

Cherokee County School District spokeswoman Carrie McGowan said the district implemented its standard operating procedure by keeping students indoors when they were notified by law enforcement of the threat.

Since then, the district has been given the “all clear” to return to normal operations, she added.

Now that the operation is complete, Cordry said the investigation will continue into the incident, which includes tracing phone calls as well as reviewing who was scheduled to have an appointment at the office.

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