Montgomery, AL – Four Montgomery junior high students, two 12-year-olds and two 13-year-olds, were placed in juvenile detention Wednesday for bringing a homemade bomb to their school.
According to Montgomery Police Captain Huey Thornton, a spokesman, the incident happened at about 10 a.m. at Bellingrath Junior High School. He said each boy was charged with rendering a terrorist threat and possession of explosive. All the criminal charges are felonies.
Thornton said the boys are accused of bringing a bottle filled with various types of household chemicals and planned to explode it in a restroom.
Montgomery County School Superintendent John Dilworth said another student overheard the boys and alerted a school security officer about the bomb.
The boys, whose names were withheld due to the ages, were suspended. Dilworth also said each could be expelled from school.
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