Feds helping to investigateHelena school bomb threats

by The Associated Press
| March 21, 2014 9:00 PM

HELENA (AP) — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have been called in to help police and the Lewis and Clark County sheriff’s office investigate a series of bomb threats to Helena schools that led to the cancellation of classes on Friday.

Superintendent Kent Kultgen says someone called dispatchers at about 8:30 a.m. Friday saying there was a bomb in all the schools in the city. School officials evacuated all of the students and cancelled classes for the day.

A threat called in on Wednesday said there was a bomb in a Helena elementary school while on Monday a caller said there was a bomb in the Capital High School gym. No explosives were found.

Sheriff Leo Dutton said the federal agencies are helping with the effort to identify the caller or callers.