LINCOLN — A 12-year-old student at Lincoln Middle School was arrested late Tuesday afternoon in connection with a bomb threat at his school written on a bathroom wall, said Superintendent Mary Ann Spears.
A second message was found at the high school and it also was evacuated, said Police Chief Russell Morphis. The main threat was at the middle school, he said. He declined to discuss the specific wording of either message because the investigation is continuing.
Spears said the boy was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center by Lincoln police after his arrest.
No other details about the boy or his intention was available.
Schools will open as usual today after being evacuated about 1 p.m. Tuesday because of a threatening message written in a bathroom in the middle school.
The buildings, across town from each other, were searched with the assistance of a police dog from the University of Arkansas, Morphis said.
"Nothing turned up," he said.
Superintendent Mary Ann Spears said security cameras are at both schools and officials and police were reviewing video. A student reported the threat at the middle school to the assistant principal, Spears said.
Spears said middle school students were taken to a play area behind the school and high school students went to the football field at the start of the evacuation. All students then were taken to the elementary school to be indoors, she said. Parents picked up students throughout the afternoon.
NW News on 04/16/2014