Crime & Safety

Election Day School Threat Probe Continues, Report Says

Phone records subpoenaed in attempt to identify the caller that prompted the evacuation of a Glen Rock elementary school.

Glen Rock authorities are continuing to investigate a threat to a borough elementary school last November that ended the day early for students and disrupted Election Day polling.

In an update last week on the progress of the investigation, according to a a report by the Glen Rock Gazette, Councilman Michael O'Hagan, the council's public safety chair, said borough police have subpoenaed phone records in attempts to identify the caller.

Authorities also interviewed those known to have called Hamilton School around the time the building received the anonymous threat, the report said. No suspects have been identified.

The caller, made to the school the afternoon of Nov. 5, told school staff "to get everyone out of the building" before hanging up. A high school in Lodi had also received a threatening call that morning. The two threats, both proven unfounded, came a day after a gunman forced an hours-long lockdown of the Garden State Plaza.


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