Friday, May 05, 2000
Senior arrested in possible threat
By Jane Prendergast
The Cincinnati Enquirer
ANDERSON TOWNSHIP — An Anderson High School senior was arrested Thursday after authorities say she admitted writing a note that forced the evacuation of her school.
The school was evacuated about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday after somebody found the words “boom at 12:30 boom” written on a desk in a classroom. Students were evacuated.
After investigating, Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies arrested Lisa McCartney, 18, of the 6300 block of Salem Road. She faces a felony charge of inducing panic.
She was called to the principal's office Thursday, where she admitted she wrote the words, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett. She claimed, however, that the phrase did not refer to a bomb, but to something about bowling. The graffiti also contained some foul language about the school.
If convicted, Ms. McCartney could go to jail for up to 18 months and be fined as much as $5,000.
Meanwhile, two Fairfield students have been charged with one count each of inducing panic and telephone harassment in connection with last weekend's bomb threats left on answering machines at Fairfield Middle and Intermediate schools.
A 12-year-old female intermediate school student was charged Wednesday in connection with an April 29 bomb threat at the middle school. A 13-year-old male middle school student was charged with leaving a bomb threat on the answering machine at the intermediate school the same day.
The students have been suspended and are recommended for 80-day expulsions, Superintendent Charles Wiedenmann said. The expulsion hearings are set for May 15. The students are to appear in Butler County Juvenile Court May 16, Fairfield Police said. Each message said a bomb would go off at the schools May 1.School and fire officials searched both buildings and found nothing.
The two students were together when the bomb threats were phoned in, police said.
Letters informing parents of the arrests were sent home with intermediate and middle school students Thursday.
Sue Kiesewetter contributed to this report.
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