Crime & Safety
Another Bomb Threat at Easton Area High School
Third bomb threat called into Easton high school in the last two weeks.
was evacuated Wednesday afternoon following a bomb threat.
It was the in the .
According to the school district, the school was evacuated at 12:55 p.m. after the threat was made.
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School security officers searched the building, as did Palmer Township police, who used a bomb-sniffing dog. No bomb was turned up, and students and staff members returned to school at 1:22 p.m.
Phony bomb threats can land people in very real legal trouble. In 2005, for example, New Jersey resident Hatice Ceylan was sentenced to a year in jail for having a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia airport to keep Ceylan from missing a flight.
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Last year, -- he avoided jail time by entering a guilty plea -- for suggesting to a guard at a Bethlehem IRS office that he had a bomb.
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