Two Students Charged In Making Bomb Threat Against School: CMPD

CHARLOTTE, NC — Two students at Hawthorne Academy have been charged in making bomb threats at their school, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said Wednesday.

The 14-year-old and 15-year-old students communicated the bomb threats early March 21, according to a CMPD report. The School Resource Officer and staff of the school located at 1411 Hawthorne Lane interviewed and searched the students, and no devices or weapons were found.

They were each charged with one count of communicating threats and were released into the custody of their parents, CMPD said.

“The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Police Department take threats of violence towards students and staff very seriously and thoroughly investigate each reported incident,” CMPD said in a statement.

The bomb threat comes close on the heels of several other copycat threats made against schools in the Charlotte-metro region following the Feb 14 massacre of 17 students in Parkland, Florida

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