Buena High School student arrested for bomb threat

Published: Nov. 18, 2015 at 8:34 PM MST|Updated: Jan. 13, 2016 at 8:35 PM MST
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TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - A 16-year-old male student from Buena High School is facing felony charges after police said a bomb threat was written on a wall in a boy's bathroom at the school on Tuesday afternoon.

A school resource officer assigned to the high school "worked tirelessly with school officials" to determine who wrote the threat, according to a press release.

After developing leads late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, the student was arrested at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Officers searched the student's residence, but said they did not find any devices or equipment that indicated he had the capability or was actually intending to place an explosive device at the school.

He was charged with three felonies, including two counts of disrupting an educational institution and one count of conducting a hoax, which involves "engaging in conduct that would likely impart a false impression that an act of terrorism will take place."

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