West Wilkes Bomb Threat Leasd to Arrest

A bomb threat Wednesday at West Wilkes High School means all but one of the county's high schools has been threatened this year. And it looks like all the threats are the work of one misguided teen. Sheriff's deputies are not releasing the name of the 13-year old boy. Wednesday's threat was phoned in to West Wilkes about 10:35 a-m. A male caller told the secretary who answered the phone there was a bomb in the school, set to go off soon. The school reacted according to district protocol and evacuated students, staff and visitors until the building could be searched. A deputy walked thorough the school with two administrators and found nothing. After about an hour outside, everyone was let back in the building.



Later in the day, the unidentified teen confessed to making the threat, and to similar threats late last year on East Wilkes High School and Wilkes Central Middle School. The boy bragged to several friends about Wednesday's threat, and they ratted him out to the principal. The boy was taken into custody and will be handled by the juvenile court system. According ot the crime report, he is being detained in Taylorsville for the rest of this week.