Oakland County MS Teacher Sentenced To Jail For Bomb Threat: Officials

HAZEL PARK, MI — A Hazel Park middle school teacher was sentenced Tuesday to 14 days in jail and 24 months of probation after he left messages threatening to blow up the school on a desk for students to see.

Officials said on Feb. 2, Paul Jacobs, 40, of Livonia, found a piece of paper with a message that said Hazel Park Junior High would be blown up the next day.

Instead of reporting the note, Jacobs placed the note in the classroom for students to find the next morning, hoping it would be reported and school would be canceled the next day, officials said.

Jacobs initially told officers he put the threatening messages into a notebook, but later confessed to planting the note after security footage showed him placing the note on a desk for students to see, officials said.

Jacobs was charged with making an intentional threat to commit an act of violence against a school, a 1-year misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 14 days in jail and 24 months of probation.

Jacobs was a social studies teacher at the middle school, according to the school district's website.