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On Monday morning, students and staff had to leave the campus because of a bomb threat note located in the school bathroom.

Bomb threat note located in Rene Post Middle School bathroom in Kaplan

KAPLAN - In less than a week, there was another bomb scare at a Vermilion Parish school.
At around 9 a.m. on Monday, a bomb threat note was located in a Rene Rost Middle School restroom.
Students, staff, and faculty were moved off campus while law enforcement searched the campus with three bomb-smelling dogs furnished by the Erath Police Department and La. K-9.
The dogs located no bomb.
By 11 a m. the students and faculty were brought back to the middle school, where school continued.
The Parish’s district Crisis Team confirmed a bomb threat at the school did occur.
“In the interest and safety of our students, teachers, and staff, we evacuated to an alternative site,” said Crisis Team. “The all-clear was declared by local authorities. Students and staff returned to the campus. We are currently using all resources to investigate the origin of the threat.”
It will be a week on Wednesday since a bomb threat occurred at Erath High School.
Like Rene Ross Middle School, the bomb threat note was located in a bathroom with no video cameras.
The school district’s Crisis Team was able to watch a video at Erath High outside of the bathroom to find the alleged suspect.
After confessing to leaving the note, an EHS student was arrested and charged with terrorizing and with two counts of false communications of a bomb threat.
As of 11:30 a.m. on Monday, no one has yet to be arrested for the Rene Rost Middle bomb threat.
A person charged with terrorizing could receive 15 years in prison.

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