PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Vancouver Public Schools put five schools into secure mode and evacuated one more amid what the district believes were a series of swatting calls.
The swatting calls, or series of false calls, were threats that police found to be non-credible. These calls began around 11:15 a.m. and each involved threats with different kinds of violence.
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“Some threatened a person was coming to the school with weapons, other calls threatened that a bomb was at the school,” VPS said in an email to parents and caretakers on Tuesday. “The calls were automated and from a blocked number.”…