A 13-year-old seventh grade student was taken into custody Tuesday morning at Pierce County Middle School and has been charged with terroristic threats in connection with a bomb threat posted to the school’s Facebook page early Monday morning. He has also been charged with transmitting a false public alarm, a felony.
No suspicious items were found and no explosives were detected during a search of the school grounds Monday.
Pierce County Schools resumed normal operations Tuesday, January 22, after being closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Local authorities coordinated the search of PCMS Monday with the assistance of bomb detection dogs from the United States Coast Guard and Camden County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Units.
Blackshear PD officers and Blackshear Fire Dept. personnel conducted a walk through search of the building prior to a more detailed search with four bomb-sniffing dogs.
The social media threat was reported to the Blackshear Police Department at approximately 4 a.m. Whoever posted the message appeared to have removed it within an hour.
“A bomb has been placed at your school find it before Tuesday and the students live ... GOOD LUCK,” the statement read.
A fake Facebook account under the handle “Dank Memer” was used to make the threat, but Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Unit detectives learned the true identity of who made the threat.
