Reward Offered in School Bomb Threats

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Conejo Valley Unified District officials are offering a $5,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever mailed bomb threats to several schools last month.


Anonymous letters threatening that a bomb would go off at one of five campuses were delivered on March 29 to Los Cerritos Middle School and Ladera, Lang Ranch, Meadows and Weathersfield


elementary schools. A sixth letter was sent to Park Oaks Elementary School, which was not identified as a potential target.


Attendance fell by as much as 75% at some campuses the next day as parents kept students home. The letters said a bomb would go off that day.


Ventura County sheriff’s deputies searched the campuses with bomb-sniffing dogs but found no explosive devices. The school district also hired private security guards to patrol overnight.


Anyone with information can call (800) 78-CRIME. Callers do not have to give their names.