EVERETT – A 14-year-old Everett student could face criminal charges after e-mailing a bomb threat to Evergreen Middle School, forcing the cancellation of opening night for the school play.
Everett police worked with school staff to track down the student who made the threat, which was received Thursday after children had gone home for the day. The student confessed when confronted, police Capt. Mike Campbell said.
“There was no apparent substance to the threat,” Campbell said. “There was nobody ever in danger of harm.”
Police will forward the information to the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office, which will determine whether charges will be filed.
The school canceled Thursday’s opening night of “Music Man Jr.,” and the show was rescheduled to tonight. A Friday performance was to go on as planned.
Principal Joyce Minehan-Stewart said students “were very disappointed” to miss opening night, since they had been working on the play since school started.
School officials would discuss the threat case, but district spokeswoman Sue McCann said district policy normally calls for a student who makes such a threat to be expelled.
Lynnwood: Police uncover forgeries
Police work earlier this week led to the discovery of a small computer lab being used to make bogus prescriptions.
The lab was found after Lynnwood police arrested a woman who tried to pass a forged prescription at a local pharmacy, Cmdr. Steve Rider said. During the investigation, detectives tracked the fake prescription to a Bellevue residence.
Investigators there searched the home, where they found the computer lab. They also found 527 doses of prescription narcotics, 113 marijuana plants and more than 300 grams of dried marijuana bud.
Police arrested four people for investigation of forgery, possession and manufacturing drugs.
Carnival worker charged for nude photos
A 22-year-old Lynnwood man who worked at the Evergreen State Fair carnival in September was charged Friday for having photos of teenage girls baring their breasts on his cellphone camera.
Matthew Jack Campbell and another man are accused of enticing girls to lift their shirts so they could take the photos, deputy prosecutor Matt Baldock said.
Campbell is charged in Snohomish County Superior Court with having images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Baldock said the girls, 15 and 16, were identified, although the shots were from the neck down. Images of several other women, who were not identified, also were on the phone.
The carnival employees gave the girls a prize in exchange for letting them take the photos, court documents said.
From Herald staff reports
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