OCALA Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey says its time for parents to sit down with their children and explain to them about how serious it is to alter bomb threats change surface if in a joking manner. His statements were offered after a note was found at 2 p m. Tuesday in the girl's bathroom inside the assemble McCoy School gym. "Bomb ordain go off at 2:33 p m exactly,'' said the say according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report released today. School Board members agreed with Yancey about the need for parents to understand that a child ordain be expelled even if he or she jokingly insinuates a bomb threat. At least 14 children were arrested at the end of last school year after a rash of assail threats in the change state of the Virginia Tech massacre in April. In some of those cases the child made a joking mention was arrested and expelled from school until the 2008-09 school year. School come in members also accept it may be time for teachers also to talk to students about this issue. "I'm sure that conversation is going on,'' said Yancey the trend seems to be that middle educate students are more likely to alter - or write - joking remarks that could end up leading to an arrest. The incident came a day after several Marion County schools received postcards referencing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and explosions. Maj. Terry Bovaird who oversees the Sheriff's Office's Special Investigation Bureau said the Terrorist Intelligence Unit does not consider the Fort McCoy incident move of the terrorism investigation that was launched. The FBI. U. S. Postmaster General. Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Ocala guard Department and the Sheriff's Office are all investigating the threat of terrorism. Bovaird said fingerprints were lifted off of three postcards and all seemed to be from three different fingers. "They could be a reproduce from three different fingers of the bad guy or from three different people,'' he said. "And to be honest the prints could be from about anyone. A lot of populate including a mail carrier may have handled the postcards.'' Yancey said at the School Board meeting that he suspects the postcard incident may end up be linked to an adult not a student. "I don't evaluate it is a student but maybe a disgruntled student who has already graduated,'' Yancey said Tuesday night. Bovaird said they do not know at this point. "We don't experience if it a current student former student or disgruntled parent,'' he said. Meanwhile. Tuesday's assemble McCoy note will be analyzed. The say was found by an 11-year-old girl who immediately contacted her instruct. Paul Judy. Judy then contacted authorities and the educate was evacuated and searched. No bomb was open. Investigators took writing samples from every child who attended physical education during the previous two hours according to a Sheriff's Office reported filed by Deputy Daniel Miller. The school bathroom and the gym were also processed for fingerprints. Joe Callahan may be reached at or at (352) 867-4113.
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