Posted on 04/25/2018 1:48:29 PM PDT by BBell
Covington police said Wednesday (April 25) they have arrested a juvenile in connection with a "chemical incident'' at a junior high school. Police said the chemicals were "consistent with materials commonly used to manufacture a bomb."
The juvenile suspected of bringing the materials to the school, a 13-year-old, was charged with manufacture and possession of a bomb and was booked into the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center in Robert, police said.
Authorities from the Covington Police Department, Covington Fire Department and St. Tammany Sheriff's Office responded Tuesday to reports of a chemical spill of some sort at William Pitcher Junior High School. Around 2:10 p.m., school officials had reported that a student was seen with a bottle that contained a substance that appeared to be smoking and some of the substance had spilled onto a sidewalk.
A juvenile male, a student at the school, was taken into custody Tuesday. Eight people on the scene were evaluated for chemical exposure but declined further medical attention.
A hazmat team was called out to decontaminate the area, police said.
Sgt. Trey Mahon, a Covington Police Department, spokesman, told WVUE Fox 8 News that the chemicals were "common household chemicals.''
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I do not know what kind of bomb materials he had so by me mentioning hydrochloric acid bombs is pure speculation.
Baking soda and vinegar?
Drano and aluminum foil work pretty well.
Who knows. I will be interested in finding out.
I’d still be in jail if I was arrested every time we mixed stuff up to make it go boom in the woods ...
hydrochloric acid bombs.
You’d be amazed at what you can do with black tape and sparklers.
I think some muzzie terrorist tried that in Britain.
Another example of the ‘school to prison’ pipeline. Schools should follow the example of Broward County and not allow arrests to be made on school grounds. What could go wrong with such a humane policy?
My son went through a rocket motor building phase. We eventually were able to build successful motors, but the early failures (explosions) were fun too.
No, I wouldn’t.
Probably chlorine and ammonia, which can kill.
Or Pool CL2/Shock and a Soda, oil or anything else Organic mixed will start a fire.
Should have called it a chemical clock. He’d have made the news, been invited to Obama’s house and been feted in Qatar.
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