Police investigate threats against schools in four states

Almost 30 schools in New Jersey received bomb and mass-shooting threats Tuesday, along with schools in at least six other states, prompting evacuations and lockdowns across the country.

Threats were received at schools in Clifton, Bergenfield, Leonia, Tenafly, Teaneck, Garfield, Fair Lawn, Hackensack and Englewood.

Bracken says there’s no indication of any validity to the threat, but precautions were taken.

Again, the threats made against schools across six states on Tuesday have not been officially connected to one another.

The threats follow a string of bomb threats that state police responded to on Friday in seven MA communities.

The police chief said parents should talk to their kids, and tell them to behave while on school grounds.

Threats to schools in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida and MA were also made, according to some news organizations. The buildings were just two of 15 around the state that received bomb threats.

Officers from the BPD and high school district stood by as students left the school.

A bomb threat was received at the Billerica Public Schools on Tuesday.

Taunton superintendent Julie Hackett wrote in a statement that schools around MA had received “a spate of threatening automated phone messages”. The calls appeared to have been routed through Bakersfield, Calif. The FBI is aware of the threats but said the investigation is being led by local authorities.

Thus far, Leonia police have deemed that the threat against the high school there was not credible. The voicemail was retrieved Tuesday morning before school started.

Massachusetts: Over a dozen school across eastern Massachusetts were placed on lock down following a series of bomb threats, according to the Boston Globe. Drury said security cameras in the area will be reviewed to try to find a suspect.