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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Rwbecca says
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
Ross says
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.
Angry parent says
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
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
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.
Flankaster says
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.