HARRISON TOWNSHIP — A person is in custody after a threat closed a local school district on Tuesday.
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Monday night, Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Northridge High School to investigate a threat.
A worker at a Montgomery County mental health and addiction treatment facility called Stay Safe Speak Up, a student safety hotline, to report a threat.
“When you’re talking about threats to a school and our children, we’re all going to take this stuff very serious, and we’re going to respond appropriately,” Jeremy Roy, chief of staff at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, said.
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Deputies learned an 18-year-old former student was at the treatment facility when they made the threats.
By the time deputies got there, he was gone.
“They gave us a couple of places where they think he could be, so deputies and investigators are out all night and were unable to make contact with him,” Roy said.
That’s when Northridge school leaders decided, out of an abundance of caution, they would cancel school.
Deputies said around midnight, the suspect went back to that treatment center.
“We were able to take him into custody, and he is in the Montgomery County Jail right now,” Roy said.
The sheriff’s office is not naming him until he is officially charged.
News Center 7 found Thomas Harville booked into the Montgomery County Jail on making a terroristic threat.
Deputies said he’s made similar threats before in Dayton.
Class will resume on Wednesday, and the sheriff’s office said they will have extra deputies there to give parents, students, and staff peace of mind.
We will continue to follow this story.
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