A 14-year-old student at Charles W. Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines made a fake call to 911 on Tuesday morning, claiming “suspicious men,” one who had a gun, were walking toward the school, police said.
The teen, a sophomore at the school, is facing charges of false report concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner, disruption of a school function and misuse of an emergency system, Pembroke Pines Police said in a news release Wednesday.
Shortly before 9 a.m., the Broward Sheriff’s Office non-emergency line received an anonymous call that claimed the men were walking toward Flanagan High at 12800 Taft St. Officers swarmed the school’s campus, putting nearby Walter C. Young Middle School and Lakeside Elementary School also on a “code secure” lockdown, the police department said. They found no threat.
The Pembroke Pines City Pension Fund office received a second call from someone who made threats toward that office and the high school. The police department’s Threat Assessment Team began investigating both calls.
The boy tried to conceal his voice in the calls and the location they were made from, according to the news release. The South Florida Sun Sentinel is not identifying him because he is a minor.
He admitted to making the calls, the police department said.
