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You are here: Home / News / ERPD: Bomb Threat a Hoax

ERPD: Bomb Threat a Hoax

October 31, 2017 By Dick Cook and News Channel 9 Leave a Comment

Officials with the East Ridge Police Department say a reported bomb scare at East Ridge Middle School for Tuesday, October 31st is a hoax, according to our friends at NewsChannel9.

East Ridge Police assistant chief Stan Allen says teachers were collecting tablets in a classroom when one of the tablets was found with the text ’10-31 bomb threat’ on it.

School officials released a voice message to parents, saying that they do not believe children are in any danger, saying that they “have found no evidence that it is a credible threat.”

East Ridge Middle School officials went on to say that school on Halloween day will not be cancelled.

Stan Allen says that as a precaution, the police department will have extra officers at the school.

click here for audio message from the school system.

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, News

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

About News Channel 9

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