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Officers were dispatched to the Scarsdale Middle School shortly after 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, after a house counselor at the school reported that a student brought her a threatening note that was reportedly found in a girl’s bathroom on a Post-It note that read “I bomb school at 12:00 p.m.”
The note led to the counselor to alert police, it was noted in a report released on Monday afternoon.
Shortly before 11:30 a.m. on the morning the note was discovered, officers coordinated with the school’s principal and director of facilities to conduct a check of the area where the note was found and administrators determined that the safest course was to evacuate the building onto the middle school field while a check for anything dangerous was conducted by officials.
The Westchester County Police Department Bomb Squad searched the interior and exterior of the building with several K-9 Units, which determined there was no dangerous device in or around the area. The area was cleared by police shortly after 12:15 p.m. and students were returned to the building.
Police took possession of the threatening note for further evaluation and the investigation into the bomb threat is ongoing.
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