Classes at International Falls schools have been canceled for Thursday after a second threat was called in declaring a bomb would be on campus at 11 a.m., according to school officials.
Evidence concludes that the caller was the same person who called in a threat of violence left on an International Falls school district message center Tuesday night, which resulted in students being sent home Wednesday morning.
The school district completed a campus sweep later Wednesday and found no exploding device, according to a news release issued late Wednesday.
Parents and students with any information which could aid this investigation are encouraged to call the school district or the International Falls Police Department.
Falls Police Chris Raboin said Wednesday afternoon that the investigation into the call continues.
“We have a couple leads we’re still looking into,” he said.
Raboin said police made a sweep of the schools in an effort to ensure that they were safe.
The caller could be charged with felony terroristic threats, according to Raboin.
From an earlier story:
Don Langan, Falls superintendent, says classes are expected to be held Thursday, unless another call is received.
If classes are canceled, Langan said it would be announced on local radio stations as soon as possible.
Langan said that a telephone message left at the district’s after-hours call-in center threatened violence at a particular time Wednesday morning, but did not direct the threat at any particular group of students or building in the district.
“This is an all encompassing threat,” he said. “We spent some time this morning... and had a reasonable window to tip and turn this situation as many ways as we could and as quickly as we could. We made the prudent decision, that even though there was no evidence other than the telephone message of a threat, we took the most conservative response to evacuate the campus and get the kids home.”
The telephone message was found by a secretary, who begins the day at 7 a.m. with the task of picking up the after-hours calls.