An 11-year-old boy at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School who police said called in a bomb threat Wednesday morning was charged with felony terrorizing.
Deputies at the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department went to the school after staff found a “communication” on a scanner-printer in the school library alleging there was a bomb in the school, according to a written release from the sheriff’s office.
The school was safely evacuated. Bomb detection dogs from Maine State Police and the Portland Police Department assisted with the investigation.
School staff assisted in the investigation and helped determine that the threat originated on the assigned computer of a student at the school. After the student was identified, his parents were contacted.
The child was detained and issued a juvenile summons for terrorizing, a Class C felony, for causing the evacuation of a building. The boy was later released to the custody of his parents. He was given an April court date in Portland.
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