Boone Grove freshman arrested after threatening to blow up school
Porter County IN October 22 2018
A Boone Grove High School freshman was arrested Friday afternoon for threatening to blow up the school, police said.
Porter County Sheriff spokeswoman Sgt. Jamie Erow said in a release late Friday that Boone Grove High School students told its principal, Clay Corman, the 15-year-old had been showing fellow students videos with explosions and making threats about blowing up the school earlier in the week.
The students didn’t come to Corman until late Friday morning, according to Erow.
Erow said Corman called the student, along with the school’s resource officer, to the office. The student admitted making statements but said he was “only joking” about calling in a bomb threat, Erow said.
The boy was immediately taken to Porter County Juvenile Detention Center; where he was initially charged with Level 6 Felony Intimidation, Erow said in the release.
A follow-up investigation at the suspect’s home found neither materials to make incendiary devices nor other weapons, Erow said.
