UPDATE: Student Arrested After Calling In Bomb Threat To Cedar Falls School

Updated at 1:59 p.m. Friday:

Police have arrested a 15-year-old student after he allegedly called in a bomb threat to Peet Junior High School this morning.

Police said the school received threats by phone that a bomb would go off at a the school at a specific time.

The teen was charged with False Reports, a Class D Felony.

He is a ninth-grader at Peet. He was booked at the Black Hawk County Jail and released to his parents. 

Director of secondary education Dan Conrad told Patch students were not in danger at any time, and that a search of the building had been conducted but turned up nothing.

"Basically, we didn’t believe that it was a credible threat to start with," he said. "It did not disrupt classes in any way."

Earlier reporting:

A bomb threat was called in to Peet Junior High School this morning, according to an email sent to parents and forwarded to Patch.

The email said the caller had been identified and apprehended and admitted the threat was a hoax, and that no students were in danger at any time. As a precaution, the email said a search of the building was conducted by Cedar Falls Police and district staff.

Cedar Falls Police said they could not comment on the incident at this time, but expect more information to be released later.

School officials did not immediately return calls asking for comment.

The email reads in full:

A phone call considered as a bomb threat was received this morning, April 27, 2012.  Although the threat was not deemed credible, as a precaution a search of the building was conducted by the Cedar Falls Police Department and District Staff.  The caller has been identified, apprehended and admitted the threat was a hoax.  No students were in danger at any time.