A minor was arrested on Tuesday in connection to a bomb threat at a New Jersey elementary school polling location — one of dozens made across the Garden State on Election Day.
The suspect, identified as a North Brunswick resident, was taken into custody after a bomb threat was reported at the Livingston Park Elementary School, Pix 11 reported.
The school received the threat via text message at around 8:15 a.m., with officers and explosive detection K-9 officers of the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department deployed to search the area.
Like with other incidents reported in seven New Jersey counties, police found no credibility to the threat.
It remains unclear if the juvenile arrested had worked in coordination with the other threats that sprung up at other polling sites.
Law-enforcement agencies in the Garden State were tipped off about threats made to polling locations across Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Passaic counties Tuesday morning, according to the state Office of the Attorney General.
The threats had been investigated, with many of the polling sites shortly reopening while others remained closed, with voters directed to other locations to cast their ballots.
The New Jersey bomb threats come in the middle of a knife-edge governor’s race, with US Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) in a dead heat with Republican businessman and former state legislator Jack Ciattarelli.
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