Bomb scare prompts evacuation of Swanton High School

3/23/2006

About 450 Swanton High School students were told to leave their classrooms about 10:30 this morning because of a bomb scare.

Students walked to the middle school in this district on the Lucas-Fulton county line where they remained at noon.

Swanton Police Department was called and troopers from the Ohio Highway Patrol s Swanton and Toledo Posts assisted.

Police Chief Homer Chapa said that students were evacuated after a note, written on a wall in the high school, was found.

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