Female student charged after confessing to Howland bomb threat

HOWLAND — A female student at Howland High School was taken from the school this morning and charged with a felony inducing panic charge after she confessed to being the person who wrote a threat on a bathroom wall.

She was taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center, said Howland Assistant Police Chief Nick Roberts.

The girl turned herself in to school officials this morning, and school officials called Howland police, Roberts said.

"It was an attempt to get a day off of school," Roberts said. "She didn't realize the seriousness of the threat and how seriously we would take it."

A felony is the most serious type of charge and can result in incarceration.

School officials reported the threat April 15. They found a note written on the wall saying that a bomb would go off at the high school last Wednesday.

Police checked the building, finding nothing, and then continued to maintain an extra police presence since then, especially Wednesday, Roberts said.