UPDATE | Liberty police question student in bomb threat

LIBERTY — Township police took a student into custody today in connection with a threat that prompted the closure of two Liberty schools.

Police questioned a male student in sixth-grade at W.S. Guy Middle School over a handwritten note containing a bomb threat, police Chief Richard Tisone said.

“The note indicated a bomb would detonate at the school, within the next three days, which would have bought him three days off from school,” Tisone said.

Police reviewed video surveillance footage and matched handwriting from the threat to handwriting from the student’s schoolwork, Tisone said.

Both W.S. Guy Middle School and E.J. Blott Elementary School were briefly evacuated this morning while officials investigated.

The student is expected to face felony inducing-panic charges through the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center, Tisone said.

A prosecutor with the JJC said Monday afternoon that charges have not yet been filed.