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Student arrested after making threat at Lakota West

Lakota West High School became the latest location in a series of bomb threats at public, local venues in the Cincinnati area.

MORE: Mason police pursue leads in football game bomb threat

A note threatening a bomb was found Monday in a restroom at the West Chester Twp. school.

The suspect — a male student, who is a juvenile — was identified after an investigation by school officials, Lauren Boettcher, spokeswoman for the Butler County school system, told the Journal-News.

High school officials worked with the West Chester Township Police Department in the investigation.

The student was arrested and will be charged with making a terrorist threat, according to Barb Wilson, spokeswoman for the township.

“The matter was resolved quickly through actions of school staff and school resource officers and safety measures that are put into action in the schools. There was no disruption to the day — no evacuation and no lockdown,” Wilson told the Journal-News.

The high school junior also faces school discipline, which includes immediate suspension and possible expulsion, along with possible criminal charges.

In a statement emailed to school parents, Lakota West Principal Elgin Card, wrote: “It was brought to our attention this morning that a threatening message appeared in one of our school restrooms. We went to work immediately with our school resource office to investigate the threat to student safety and quickly identified that a Lakota West student was responsible for the message. We will be disciplining the student according to our student code of conduct, but wanted you to know that all students are safe and the situation is under control.”

“As you know, we take any threat to student safety very seriously,” Card went on to write. “Please use this as an opportunity to remind your students of the personal and sometimes legal consequences they face when using poor judgment. It’s also a good time to reiterate students’ responsibility to share information related to the safety of our school community with administration immediately. Safety is always our top priority.”

The bomb threat comes the first school day after Warren County's Mason High School saw a bomb threat cancel its Friday nigh home football game, which was then played on Sunday.

That threat remains under investigation by both Mason school officials and the Mason Police Department.

The FBI is assisting local police agencies investigating a series of threats made in the last week, including at Mason High School, reported the Associated Press.

Police evacuated some 10,000 fans Friday at the end of a prep football game in the Hamilton County suburb of Colerain Twp.

A bomb threat at the Cincinnati Zoo saw it evacuated Thursday.

On Saturday, an anonymous caller claimed an explosive device had been planted on one of Cincinnati’s streetcars, which officially began operation Friday. Service was halted temporarily while a bomb-sniffing dog was used.

No explosives were found, city spokesman Rocky Merz told the Associated Press.