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Bomb Threat Prompts Middle School Evacuation

A Police Search Finds No Evidence of Explosives but Police Are Investigating the Incident.

A bomb threat forced students and staff to evacuate Leonard J. Tyle Middle School shortly before midday on October 26.

Montville Police Lt. Leonard Bunnell said the school received a phone call warning that a bomb was set to go off at 12:30 p.m. Police responded immediately and conducted a  thorough search of the school but found no evidence of explosives or anything resembling a bomb.

Bunnell said bomb-sniffing dogs were not used in the search because there was no time to call for K9 units. The phone call came in not long before the caller said the bomb would go off, he said.

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It’s unclear at this point whether the call was intended as a practical joke but Montville police are certainly taking the matter seriously. Bunnell said they have a few leads but he declined to go into details because the investigation is ongoing.  

The caller is likely to face charges for raising a false alarm, at the very least, but because the threat involved a bomb there may well be additional charges beyond that.

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If you have any information that might help the police with their investigation, please call Montville Police Department at (860) 848-7510.

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