15-year-old girl arrested in bomb threat that evacuated Cherokee high school

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A teenage girl has been arrested and accused of faking a bomb threat that evacuated a high school in Cherokee County last month.

The anonymous bomb threat caused students at Etowah High School to be released from school around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28.

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says their investigators used phone records and spoke to witnesses to identify a 15-year-old suspect.

The girl was arrested on Tuesday and charged with terroristic threats. It is unclear if she was a student at Etowah High School.

She is being held in the Marietta Youth Detention Center without bond.