Two individuals were recently arrested for calling a Central Florida school principal to report a bomb.
Earlier this month, the principal of Ridge Community High School in Haines City notified the School Resource Deputy at the facility, that she received three phone calls from an unknown male; the first call she heard nothing, the second call she heard, “I have a bomb,” and the third call she heard, “It was a joke.”
The ensuing Polk County Sheriff’s Office investigation determined that the phone number belonged to 18-year-old Jaimelias Rivera-Rodriguez.
According to local law enforcement, contact was made with Rivera-Rodriguez and he admitted to making the calls. He told the deputy that his friend, 18-year-old Ethan Bork gave him the principal’s phone number and told him to call it and say that he had a bomb…