Students wait outside for hours while police comb South Miami-Dade school after threat
Hundreds of students stood outside Palm Glades Preparatory Academy Thursday morning into the afternoon while Miami-Dade County police searched inside the school following a bomb threat.
Officers conducted a “protective sweep” inside the school soon after someone called in the threat at 11 a.m., said police spokesman Detective Lee Cowart.
“We’re trying to investigate the source of the phone call,” he said.
Police blocked traffic along Southwest 112th Avenue from 232nd to 225th streets, detouring heavy traffic through the Silver Palms neighborhood.
Officers declared the 6th-through-12th-grade charter school clear at 1 p.m. “and opened the perimeter,” Cowart said.
Lulu Nunez, whose two nephews and a niece she cares for attend the school, was across 112th Avenue waiting for them to be released around 12:45 p.m. She said her nephew, not the school, called her to tell her about the threat, and that the students’ main complaint was standing in the sun for hours without anything to drink.
“We’re waiting until they get the OK to go,” she said.
This story was originally published January 23, 2020 at 1:41 PM.
