IRRIGON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore in Eastern Oregon told a staff member she’d planted a bomb in a restroom, but after the school was emptied, a search determined that she hadn’t.
The East Oregonian (http://bit.ly/JujVh7 ) quotes Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack as saying it was “just a student saying stuff that she shouldn’t have said.”
Authorities at the Irrigon school pulled the fire alarm shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday, reasoning that a fire drill was the easiest way to evacuate the building that held about 340 junior and senior high school students.
Matlack says officers reviewed the girl’s movements on a video recording system, and both deputies and a State Police bomb squad searched the building.
