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Show Suspects referred to juvenile court 3 VMS teens charged for bomb threats cials quickly evacuated the building and students huddled outside in the snow and later in the gymnasium while staff, police and bomb-sniffing bomb-sniffing dogs searched the building for explosives. There were none found. Another threat was called in that afternoon. School officials decided against evacuating the students a second time since the building had already undergone a thorough search. Viewmont High School also received several bomb threats, but police don't believe they are linked to the agreement between the students at the two schools. About 6,000 students at five different schools in the Davis County School District were evacuated that week due to the bomb threats, fueling speculation an individual or the same group of people were responsible respon-sible for all the threats. Police now discount that theory and believe most of the threats are not connected. con-nected. Howard said the Viewmont suspects have "clammed up" since their initial questioning and are not talking to police. Despite their silence, police believe they have sufficient evidence of their involvement in-volvement and are charging the trio with issuing a threat against life and property. Normally a misdemeanor, the charge has been upgraded to a third degree felony because the threat was made against the occupants oc-cupants of a building used by the public. The suspects have all been referred to juvenile court. Bountiful police are questioning several suspects in connection with a bomb threat called in at South Davis Junior High. Police officials say investigation of the threats is continuing and more arrests are possible. i By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer BOUNTIFUL Woods Cross Police Department detectives are filing charges against three female Viewmont High School students for their involvement in phoning in bomb threats to Woods Cross High O School. Woods Cross and Bountiful detectives de-tectives have been cooperating in the investigation of bomb threats called in to Viewmont and Woods O Cross high schools on Jan. 14. Informants overheard the three suspects talking about the threat they called in to Woods Cross High School and told police. Woods Cross Police Chief Paul Howard said one of the teens confessed she and her friends had made the threats. The other two suspects denied de-nied any involvement. The threats were apparently made as a part of an agreement between be-tween the suspects and a student at Woods Cross High. "They heard about the threats made to some schools up in Kays-ville Kays-ville and thought this would be good way to get out of school for a few hours," Howard explained further. fur-ther. Investigators say the Viewmont View-mont students kept their end of the bargain, but the other student did not A secretary at Woods Cross fielded the first of two bomb threats the morning of Jan. 14. School offi- |