TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Titusville Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl on charges she made a hoax bomb threat to a high school.
- Girl arrested, charged with making bomb threat
- Police: Teen threatened Titusville High
- Detectives said threat was unfounded
The girl was taken into custody Thursday and charged with false report of planting a bomb, a second-degree felony. Spectrum News 13 is not naming the girl because she is a minor, per our Crime Guidelines.
Titusville Police say the threat was called into Crimeline's "Speak Out" anonymous hotline, designed for students.
"Completely misused, not what it was intended for at all," Lt. Tyler Wright of Titusville Police Department said.
A student claimed she overheard two male students planning to "bomb this school like we should have last year," a plot that was to be carried out Titusville High next Monday, February 4.
Detectives were able to determine the threat was unfounded, and traced it back to a 15-year-old THS student.
We're told half the Titusville Police Department was dealing with investigating the threat.
"Our patrol was in involved, traffic unit was involved, all of our school resource officers got involved at one point, as well as our criminal investigators," said Lt. Wright.
Police say the teen didn't give any reason for calling in the fake threat.
She is in the juvenile detention center, facing a felony charge of false report of planting a bomb.
Debbie Crouch, whose grandson Jacob is a sophomore at the school, says she was very worried Wednesday. And the girl must be punished.
"She needs to know this is very serious," said Crouch.
Police stepped up patrols at all nine Titusville schools Wednesday as a result of the threat.