Bomb Threat Investigation Ongoing

One month after a bomb threat caused a delayed opening at the , Bridgewater Township Police are still investigating the origin of the email that conveyed the threat.

"We could not find the origin of the email," said Bridgewater Township Lt. Al Nicaretta. "We are still investigating and are waiting for a few things back from other agencies."

The was emailed to the district administration the evening before. After K-9 units swept the building for several hours, the threat was determined to be false, and the school day went on without any further interruption.

Nicaretta said the department believes the email was hitting servers that were out of the country when it was sent.

"When there are servers outside of the country, it makes our job difficult to track the origin of the email," he said.

In continuing the investigation, Nicaretta said, the department has done some interviews with students at the school while continuing to try and trace the email.

"Within those interviews, there were no investigative leads developed," he said.

The investigation is still ongoing, Nicaretta said.

At a recent board of education meeting, high school student representative Olivia Di Iorio said all students took the threat seriously, and many seniors spoke to the underclassman about the situation.

"I was a freshman with the first bomb threat," she said. "Everyone was really scared, teachers too."

But, Di Iorio said, many classes spoke about the situation in the two periods after the school officially reopened March 2. She said they spoke about what they would do in this kind of situation in the future.

"I think people take it seriously, and I think that's a really good thing," she said. "Since seniors are aware of it, they are talking to sophomores and freshmen to make them aware."

Although not directly related to the bomb threat, Di Iorio also reported that the high school held a lockdown drill on March 20 to prepare for emergency situations. She said it went very smoothly.

"The whole student body got into their classrooms safely and quickly," she said. "It was done appropriately within two minutes."