Two girls charged in elementary school bomb threats
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Posted 1:27PM on Friday, January 10, 2003
LEESBURG - Two girls have been charged with making a bomb threat this week at Lee County Elementary School, the latest in a rash of false alarms at the county's public schools over the past several months. <br>
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Leesburg Police Chief Charles Moore said an 11-year-old girl was charged with two counts each of felony false alarm and misdemeanor disrupting a public school as a result of a bomb threat Wednesday and one in November. <br>
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In both cases, a handwritten note was found in a restroom, warning that a bomb would explode, he said. <br>
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A bomb squad from Albany's Marine Corps Logistics Base searched the school both times, but found no explosives. <br>
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Moore said a 15-year-old girl also faces the same charges as a result of another bomb threat Thursday at the elementary school. <br>
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``She was walking in a hall and dropped a note,'' he said. ``Some other students saw it and picked up the note. She said it was a prank.'' <br>
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Both girls face prosecution in juvenile court, Moore said. <br>
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Lee County's high school and middle school have also received bomb threats since the beginning of the school year, Moore said.