2 Niles students charged with making school threats

Staff report

NILES

Two students at Niles McKinley High School have been charged with making threats in separate incidents in October at the school, one of which led to an evacuation.

A girl, 16, is charged with felony inducing panic in an Oct. 13 incident in which she’s accused of writing a bomb threat on a bathroom wall.

The threat caused an evacuation and a search of the building by canine officers and their handlers. No bomb was found.

The other student, a boy, 15, was charged with misdemeanor making false alarms for an incident Oct. 11 in which he made false statements about a broken tablet computer, saying it was a bomb, police said.

There was no evacuation in that incident, said Patrolman Steve Corll of the Niles Police Department, who is school resource officer for the district.

The Niles Police Department sent the police reports to The Vindicator with the names and addresses of the students removed, despite the newspaper’s request for that information.

The charges were filed at Trumbull County Juvenile Court a couple of weeks ago, Corll said.