LEXINGTON, N.C. — Two Triad high schools were on high alert Thursday due to invalidated bomb threats.
Central Davidson High School students were sent home early Thursday due to a bomb threat investigation, Davidson County Schools confirmed with WFMY News 2. Deputies said it turned out to be an invalidated threat and nothing was found inside the school.
Davidson County Sheriff's Office said deputies were dispatched to the report of a bomb threat at CDHS right before school started, but students were already at the school.
Not long after, the school sent students home for the day.
Captain Cory Mann said deputies did a sweep of the school and did not find anything.
The sheriff's office was unable to comment on if the threat came in as a call, email, or otherwise.
Sheriff Richie Simmons said his office takes these threats very seriously.
"We want our schools to be safe as sound. We want the kids, and the parents that drop their kids off, and the faculty there to feel safe when they go. We are not going to take these false threats lightly. We are going to go after them to the max of what we can do," Sheriff Simmons said.
Parkland High School families were also on alert Thursday morning for a possible bomb threat, according to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools district.
The district said the threat turned out to be unverifiable. They said it came from a third party outside the district before the school day started.
Law enforcement officers did a sweep at the school and determined the campus was safe. The school system said the school day will continue as normal, but extra officers will remain on campus throughout the day out of extreme caution.
Though the threat was fake, Chief Deputy Henry Gray said a lot of resources were used, and there are big consequences for making these threats.
"It’s actually a charge, it’s perpetrating a hoax. It’s a class H felony so they could be charged, pay a hefty fine. Not only that, pay the resources for all of the entities that were involved in this. So you would have to pay for any manpower, anytime any equipment that’s used so you would have to pay all that back, reimburse the entities involved," Chief Deputy Gray said.