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Man arrested for school bomb threat

by The AV Times Staff • December 15, 2015

LANCASTER – A 26-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly making a bomb threat against high schools in Lancaster, authorities said.

The incident began around 9:22 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, when “a Lancaster Sheriff’s Station dispatcher received a bomb threat against local high schools in the city of Lancaster,” according to a news release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

“Antelope Valley Union High School District was notified and assisted deputies in the investigation of the threat,” the news release states. “A sweep was conducted with school staff and deputies of all high school campuses.”

No suspicious devices were found.

“Lancaster deputies were able to find the suspect through their investigation and arrested the suspect for criminal threats at approximately 3:30 p.m.,” the sheriff’s news release states.

The suspect was identified as 26-year-old Jared Sawyer.

No further information was immediately available.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

6 comments for "Man arrested for school bomb threat"

  1. Rwbecca says

    December 17, 2015 at 9:51 am

    This is funny. I got a call staying that there was school because no threats were made to the high schools. So they sent out that no its but not notifying us, that there was a true threat here also. What a school district

  2. Ross says

    December 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    When LAUSD went on lockdown I pulled my kids from their school because what if? My kids are so much more important to me than banking on it being a prank/hoax.

  3. Angry parent says

    December 16, 2015 at 9:05 am

    Why weren’t we as parents notified and the same precautions taken like the lausd schools i found out through here and my kids said there was no sweep at there school so the safety of my child was not important to them…!!!!

    • Tim Scott says

      December 16, 2015 at 9:21 am

      If the school my kid was at received a bomb threat I think I would rather they spent their efforts on managing the kids and securing the school, as opposed to trying to contact hundreds of parents to tell them the situation when the vast majority of those parents aren’t going to do anything about it anyway. Of course, my kids didn’t go to school in the age of the cell phone, so contacting the hundreds of parents would have been a genuine impossibility anyway, so my view may be skewed.

      • Notsomuch says

        December 16, 2015 at 4:11 pm

        Tim-Not to mention the pandemonium that would ensue when hundreds of cars filled with parents swarmed the schools and flooded the street (which would undoubtedly corral the innocents near the threat itself.) order must be kept, so erratic parents don’t fly down the road and cause a traffic collision. I’m with you on this one Tim.

  4. Flankaster says

    December 16, 2015 at 12:46 am

    Obviously another fine Honors student who grad-gee-ated from one of the fine AV continuation skools. Probably mad because of that new math he learnt that says 2 cops + 1 moron= 5 years in the pen. A genius intellect like that has got to be working with Virgin Space in Mojave in the design division… Or the CDCR lcense plate manufacturing department.

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