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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Even a misdemeanor charge is worth it to get the kid in the system and maybe scare them.
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Highly unlikely it's anything more than a court appearance & some paperwork.
Nobody is spending any meaningful time in detention (due to perpetual space issues) for a misdemeanor
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If they're going through the trouble of charging kids for shoplifting a few candy bars, they should do it for something that causes a ton of trouble for everyone.
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2 counties away is where I am and the prosecutor can't even try rape & murder charges. It's better in Barrow but the days of charging for penny candy are long gone pretty much anywhere that I know of.
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Our local library was getting regular bomb threats last year and it was such a massive pain. Each time they'd have to empty the building, run a bomb dog or something through, then let everyone back in.
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If you go deep into the statutes here, something that causes an evacuation (typically a bomb threat) DOES have the potential to be a more elevated and/or additional crime. Remember that "interfering with operations of a public school" I mentioned earlier, that would qualify.
Except that threats involving schools hardly ever end up with an evacuation, only occasionally do they reach that threshold of interfering best I can tell. Typically those incidents are reported outside of school hours and typically deemed not credible in plenty of time for the buses to pick up on schedule the next day.