ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — More children in Kentucky have been arrested for calling in fake school threats, this time across state lines in Ohio.
The Elizabethtown Police Department (EPD) said it was contacted by the Ohio Highway Patrol on Wednesday regarding a threat of violence made against the Ohio State School for the Blind in Columbus.
According to police, the call came from an Elizabethtown phone number.
"Although the threat was made against a school in a neighboring state, it was treated with the utmost seriousness," Chris Denham, a EPD spokesperson, said Thursday evening.
Detectives were able to identify three children who are accused of making the threat with the help of school resource officers.
All three children were arrested, charged with terroristic threatening and have been lodged in a juvenile detention facility, according to police.
"Anyone, regardless of age, who makes a threat of harm to others especially school children will immediately become the subject of a criminal investigation and once identified, will be arrested," Denham added. "It is my hope that other will lean from this and refrain from making further threats. Let me be clear, if another threat is made the consequences will be the same."
The arrests come amid a string of Kentucky and Indiana students arrested for making hoax threats against schools.
Earlier Thursday afternoon, a 12-year-old in Jeffersonville was charged with a felony for making threats against two middle schools in southern Indiana. Two more children may be charged, as well.
On Monday, a 16-year-old was arrested by Kentucky State Police for making threats against a Marion County school.
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