Eighteen-year-old arrested in connection to bomb threat at Tift County High School
Published 2:00 pm Wednesday, May 1, 2019
TIFTON, Ga. — One person has been arrested in connection to a bomb threat to Tift County High School on April 26, according to Detective Lieutenant Daniel Ray with the Tifton Police Department.
Aiyah Jzaynay Foster, 18, was arrested at approximately 3 p.m. on Friday, April 26, and charged with transmitting a false public alarm.
The arrest came within hours of the school’s evacuation after an anonymous caller said there was a bomb on campus.
Brandon Johnson, System Security Officer, said that the phone call came in at 10:52 a.m., the evacuation order was given at 11 a.m. and the building was completely evacuated of all 2,200 students and 200 faculty and staff by 11:14 a.m.
The building was swept by personnel from the Tifton Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, Tift County Emergency Management Agency, Tifton Fire Department, Tift County Fire/Rescue and Tift County school resource officers. They were unable to locate any kind of explosive device, according to Tifton Police Department Captain Steve Hyman.
The building was cleared for students to go back in at approximately 12:30 p.m.