After a month of investigation, detectives from the Mountain View, Los Altos and San Jose police departments have apprehended a 16-year-old male student in connection to a series of bomb threats that abruptly canceled classes at three Silicon Valley high schools in October.
Representatives from the three police departments approached the teen and his family Wednesday (Nov. 10), citing him on multiple charges related to making criminal threats and false bomb reports, according to a Mountain View Police Department press release issued Friday. The teen – who is not being named due to his age – was released into the custody of his parents.
The threats arrived in the form of anonymous phone calls placed to Los Altos High, St. Francis High in Mountain View and Presentation High in San Jose. They initiated the evacuation of Los Altos High Oct. 1 followed by evacuations at St. Francis and Presentation Oct. 5. Classes ended for the remainder of the day and students left campus early in each incident.
“All three calls caused serious disruptions to the school day, but thankfully none of the threats were credible,” Friday’s press release stated.
The high school bomb threats are not related to a threat made Nov. 4 toward Bubb Elementary in Mountain View, according to MVPD spokesperson Katie Nelson. The police department did not specify what type of threat the Bubb incident involved, but it caused the premature closure of the school that day.
On Wednesday, the MVPD directed special patrols at Vargas and Stevenson elementary schools, Graham Middle School and St. Joseph Mountain View School, but an official police blotter did not indicate why.
