Kansas teen arrested after bomb threat causes evacuations

ONAGA, Kan. – Pottawatomie County authorities say a juvenile was arrested after a bomb threat caused the evacuation of a school and hospital in Onaga.

Sheriff Greg Riat says a boy under the age of 14 was arrested then released to his parents after being booked.

Riat says someone called the sheriff’s office Tuesday morning and made a bomb threat against the Onaga Elementary School and Onaga Community Hospital.

Onaga Police Chief Dan Costlow says students at the school were sent home for the day.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports patients and staff were evacuated until the hospital was searched and no bomb was found.

Onaga is about 55 miles northwest of Topeka.