Bomb Threat Leads To Tarpon Springs High Student's Arrest: Police

TARPON SPRINGS, FL — A 16-year-old Tarpon Springs High School student faces felony charges after police say he made threats to plant a bomb near the school’s cafeteria.

According to the Tarpon Springs Police Department, the threat came to light Tuesday morning when the school’s resource deputy was approached by two students. Those students told the officer they were concerned about threats the boy allegedly made on Friday, Jan. 27.

The boy, who lives in Palm Harbor, is accused of threatening to put a “destructive device” on the school’s campus in order to harm fellow students, an email from police said. The boy is also accused of saying “he wanted to harm the school’s assigned resource officers and any other law enforcement officer that responded to the location as a result of the discharge of the device,” the email added.

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Detectives searched the boy’s home and did not find materials needed to make a destructive device, the email said. The teen, however, still faces threatening to discharge a destructive device charges.

The boy was taken to the Pinellas County Juvenile Detention Center following his arrest on the second-degree felony charge.

Patch is not releasing the boy’s name due to his age.

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