Teen detained in connection with bomb threat

Angelique Flores

FOUNTAIN VALLEY -- Police arrested a 14-year-old boy last week on

suspicion of making a bomb threat at Los Amigos High School.

Officials at the school on Newhope Street told authorities March 21

that a threatening note had been found on campus.

An investigation led authorities to a male student, who was arrested

and later released to his parents. He has since been suspended.

The school has petitioned the Orange County district attorney’s office

that the student be prosecuted.

“We want students and parents to be aware of the consequences for such

actions,” said Alan Trudell, spokesman for the Garden Grove Unified

School District.

Los Amigos is in Fountain Valley, but is part of the Garden Grove

district.

Under the state education code, such actions are subject to expulsion,

Trudell said.

School and police officials handle these incidents every bit as

aggressive as they have in the past, said Capt. Paul Sorrell of the

Fountain Valley Police Department.

“What’s different now are the rashes of threats throughout California,

not just here,” Trudell said.

No further information about the details will be released until the

district attorney’s office has reviewed the matter, officials said.