12-Year-Old Arrested for Alleged Threat

A 12-year-old Mesa Verde Middle School student was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to bring a bomb to school, sheriff’s investigators said.

Although detectives searched the boy’s home and found no explosives or other weapons, the student was arrested on suspicion of making a terrorist threat.

Authorities are also investigating a bomb threat made last week at Moorpark High School and expect to soon make an arrest, officials said.

Wednesday’s arrest brings to seven the number of students taken into custody for allegedly threatening violence at Ventura County schools, including two students who were arrested earlier this week for allegedly threatening to bomb Moorpark Community High, a continuation school.

Deputies say Pacific Bell has modified school telephone lines to identify incoming calls and record phone conversations to aid their investigations.

In light of the deadly school shooting in Littleton, Colo., officials stressed that all threats of violence, including pranks, are being taken seriously.