Bomb threat at Franklin High School

FRANKLIN — For the second time in as many days, a St. Mary Parish school was disrupted by a bomb threat Friday.

Franklin Senior High School was evacuated Friday morning after a bomb threat was called into 911, according to a news release from the St. Mary Parish School Board.

Students were evacuated while police and firefighters searched the school.

The threat was the second in two days at St. Mary Parish schools. Centerville High School was the target of a bomb threat on Thursday.

According to a St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office press release, a 14-year-old boy was arrested Friday in connection with the Centerville High School bomb threat.

The teen was charged with “communication of false information of a planned bombing on school property,” the release said.

He was released to his guardian.

“Threats of this nature are taken seriously by the St. Mary Parish School Board,” said St. Mary Parish Superintendent Donald Aguillard. “School officials intend to aggressively investigate to identify the responsible party or parties involved.”

Aguillard asked anyone with information about the threat to Franklin High School to call the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office at 828-1960.