7 bomb threats made against 4 Bergen County high schools, other public buildings
NOVEMBER 12, 2014, 12:47 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014, 11:15 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF AND STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
Authorities are investigating whether a string of six bomb threats that forced the evacuation on Wednesday of seven school buildings in Bergen County and the Garfield police headquarters were part of a coordinated effort and related to a rash of similar incidents in Massachusetts earlier in the day.
FBI agents are participating in the investigation, according to an agency spokeswoman, and Leonia’s police chief, Thomas Rowe, said he planned to ask the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to get involved because the incidents involve five jurisdictions — Hackensack, Garfield, Fort Lee, Englewood and Leonia.
“We believe there are commonalities between all these bomb threats,” Rowe said. “It looks like it’s the same person or persons involved. … This is a very serious incident.”
By late-afternoon, state and county bomb-detection K-9 units completed sweeps of the Garfield police station, the high schools in Hackensack, Garfield, Englewood and Fort Lee, and all three schools in Leonia, including its high school, determining that no bombs had been planted, county police Capt. James Mullin said. Authorities said there was no safety reason for any of the schools to remain closed today, and officials in Hackensack, Leonia and Fort Lee confirmed they are reopening.
The bomb threat against the Garfield police station was made at 11:22 a.m., and all of the others were made after 1 p.m. over a span of 20 minutes, said Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins. Investigators expect to look at whether there are any similarities to bomb threats made against five Massachusetts schools shortly after noon on Wednesday, he said.
“Obviously, this is bigger than Bergen County,” Higgins said.
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It’s amazing the lengths certain teenaged boys will go to, to get out of school.
How do you know it was a boy?
Chief Higgins will have his hands full.
I can’t think of any commonalites between Hackensack, Garfield, Fort Lee, Englewood and Leonia with Massachusetts.