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Two Charged In Little Silver School Bomb Threat
By John Burton
LITTLE SILVER - Two Markham Place School students have been charged with making the bomb threat at the school last week, according to police.
Two male juvenile students attending the borough's middle school were taken into custody and charged with making the threat, according to Lieutenant Joseph A. Mazza, a police spokesman.
The two, who were not identified because of their age, were released to their parents' custody following being charged. The charges have been forwarded to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office Central Charging Unit, Freehold, for any further action, Mazza said.
Police responded to a call from school officials on Tuesday Nov. 11, at approximately 12:17 p.m. A police officer at the scene said the nature of the threat was a message scrawled on a lavatory wall stating "Bombs away at 2:30."
School officials evacuated the school of students and staff as a precaution, Mazza said.
The school's 365 students were dismissed for the day from a nearby staging area, last week said Dr. Carolyn Kossack, the district's superintendent of schools. Police, along with the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office's K-9 units, conducted a search of the school's interior and grounds with the use of the sheriff's bomb sniffing dogs, Mazza said.
But the search did not reveal any bomb, last week said Monmouth County Undersheriff Cynthia Scott, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.
