Details Released On N.J. Fifth-Graders' Alleged Threat To 'Damage' High School

More details were released on an alleged plot by five fifth-grade students to damage a N.J. high school, police said.

The five students - the group included at least one girl - were not arrested or charged by police, according to The Record.

Police were no longer calling the incident a “bomb plot,” but police told The Record that the students had a plan to damage the school.

School officials discovered papers around 9 a.m. Wednesday that detailed plans to bring the device to Clifton High School and set it off, according to the report. The device was found at the school, he said.

The device did not contain any explosives and ultimately “wasn’t dangerous to anybody,” but police did say “they thought it was capable of doing damage.”

Their intent was to bring the device to school and cause damage inside the auditorium where people were, police said in the report.

Police said someone else may have helped the students come up with the plan to terrorize the school, according to News 12.

The children have been released into the custody of their parents, but they’re suspended from school, according to WNBC-TV.

The students, all fifth-graders, brought a device to School 11 and were going to use it during a field trip to Clifton High School, Detective Sgt. Robert Bracken said in an nj.com report.

School 11 officials called police, who later discovered written plans for an attack, according to the reports.

Parents dropping their children off Thursday morning at School 11 were upset that they had not been notified by the school of the incident, according to The Record report.