Woodbridge High School Student Arrested in Last Week's Bomb Threat

A 17-year-old student from Woodbridge High School has been arrested in last week's fake bomb threat.

The teenager, whose name was not released because of his age, was picked up by Woodbridge police and detective units after an intense investigation, said Captain Roy Hoppock in a statement.

The student was charged with making false alarm threats and released to the custody of his parents. The student had alleged phoned in the bomb threat, police said.

The bomb threat happened on April 16, the day after the tragic Boston Marathon bombing that three lives and injured 264 people, according to the Huffington Post. Many of the injured had limbs blown off by two bombs placed in pressure cookers, and allegedly dropped off at the finish line by two brothers, one of whom is dead and the other under arrest.

The Woodbridge bomb threat was called in at approximately 11:30 am. Students were ushered into the high school stadium, where they sat for two hours whie the police and bomb-sniffing dogs swept the high school building.

No bomb was found.

Edison High School suffered several bomb threats, including one on the morning of the Boston Marathon, before the bombs there detonated. That high school had several bomb threats, several days in a row. The first two involved taping a threatening letter to two different entrances to the school. 

Two more bomb threats followed, leaving nerves frayed around Edison Township, according to a nj.com report. No suspects have yet been arrested in those bomb scares.

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