Cheyenne Police, FBI, Working To Identify School Threat Source

A spokeswoman for the Cheyenne Police Department says that agency is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] to track down the source of school threats that prompted lockdowns at a couple of high schools on Monday morning.

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Alex Farkas says that at 8:05 on Monday morning police were sent to Cheyenne East High School after a shooting threat was received via a third-party text line. School administration was notified, and East went into lockdown as a security measure.

Farkas says officers arrived on the scene and began searching and securing the school.

At around 8:30 a.m., another school shooting threat was received from the same number, this time directed at South High School.

The FBI Joins The Investigation

Police cleared both buildings and found no evidence of a credible threat. A CPD news release includes the following:

''The Cheyenne Police Department is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to determine who the responsible party might be. It appears that this particular threat has been made to at least three other schools across the county - and similar unsubstantiated calls are being made to schools throughout the nation.

Monday's shooting threats were the second time in less than a month that such an incident was reported in Laramie County School District #1.. A similar threat, also determined to be a false report, was reported at East High School on October 16.

Under Wyoming law, making a terroristic threat is a felony carrying a potential penalty of up to three years in prison.