UNION COUNTY, Tenn. — Students were evacuated from Horace Maynard Middle School Wednesday afternoon after a Union County Sheriff's Office School Resource Officer learned about a possible bomb threat.
Students were sent to Union County High School while police investigated the threat. Parents could pick up their children from the Union County High School as they waited for police to clear the building.
At around 10 a.m., the Union County Sheriff's Office said the resource officer learned about the bomb threat and found a knife and a dummy hand grenade. The sheriff's office interviewed the student and witnesses before determining that the student threatened to blow up a classroom with the fake grenade.
Out of precaution, the Union County Sheriff's Office contacted the Knox County Sheriff's Office to clear the middle school with a bomb dog. No explosives were found and students returned to school.
Criminal charges are pending for the student who made the threats.
