University High bomb threat linked to Moses Lake student

Investigators are seeking the cell phone records of a 16-year-old Columbia Basin Job Corps student who they believe may have made a bomb threat to University High School. A Spokane County Sheriff’s Office detective received a tip from another Job Corps student who said she heard a boy bragging to friends that he had made a bomb threat to a Spokane Valley high school. According to a search warrant filed Wednesday, she confronted the boy and asked why he would make the threat. He allegedly responded, “Because it’s funny.” He also allegedly told her he picked University High School because his girlfriend was from the Spokane Valley area. Investigators believe the student may have borrowed his girlfriend’s cell phone to register the anonymous email address used to make the threat on April 1. When interviewed by detectives, his girlfriend said she didn’t know anything about the bomb threats, but confirmed the student had had her phone since March 30. University High School has received three other written bomb threats since April 1, including one on Monday. The Sheriff’s Office has said they may be unrelated, and is still investigating all threats.