ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — Multiple bomb threats have been trickling in to schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic region since Monday morning. Authorities say the calls are coming through a recorded robocall, and are similar in nature.
More than a dozen schools in Maryland as well as schools in Delaware and Virginia have been affected. Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis was one of the schools to get the threat. The 600 students were evacuated. No bomb was found. Doyle Batton, with the Anne Arundel County Office of School Security tells FOX45 News that the call “started out as a male, and they said an explosive device had been placed in the school. Somewhere along the line, the female voice added to the information and indicated they had a certain period of time to evacuate the school before it would detonate.” Former F.B.I. Agent Tyrone Powers says terrorists may be watching the reaction to the threats. He says, “Organizations like this have probed before by making calls to see what our response time is. We know before they have watched the response times of police departments.” Powers says they’re wondering, “How quickly do they get there, how many officers do they send, and what do the officers do when they arrive at that particular scene?”
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