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Three more Washington, D.C.-area schools received bomb threats Friday, the third day of threats in the area in just one week.
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia said on its Twitter it was investigating threats at Calvin Coolidge High School and the Upper and Lower Campuses of Digital Pioneers Academy early Friday morning. Since then, police have cleared all three without finding any hazardous materials.
Friday's threats follow a trend in the area, with at least six schools needing to be evacuated Wednesday, February 9, due to bomb threats and a Tuesday, February 8, bomb threat forcing students and Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, to evacuate a high school.
MPD is currently investigating threats at the following schools:
— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) February 11, 2022
Coolidge High School
Digital Pioneers Academy - Upper and Lower Campuses
It is not yet clear whether Friday's threats were related to the others from this week. The police department said on its Twitter on February 10 it had arrested two 16-year-olds and charged them with terroristic threats in connection with the Wednesday bomb threats, though it is still investigating with its federal partners.
Update: another 16-year old juvenile male, of Northwest, DC, has been arrested and charged with Terroristic Threats in connection to a bomb threat at Kipp DC College Preparatory on Weds 2/9. MPD continues to investigate these incidents with our federal partners.
— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) February 10, 2022
Police said Dunbar High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Ron Brown High School, KIPP D.C. College Preparatory, IDEA Public Charter School, Seed Public Charter School and McKinley Tech High School received threats on Wednesday, requiring evacuations. All the schools were cleared of any hazardous materials.
An eighth school, Friendship Public Charter School, also received threats Wednesday and was cleared, but school was not in session at the time, police said on Twitter.
Dunbar High School, the nation's first high school created to educate African American students, also received a bomb threat on Tuesday while holding a Black History Month event Emhoff was attending. Newsweek previously reported Secret Service had to remove Emhoff from the premises.
In the police's social media posts, they did not specify whether the two teens arrested were connected to the Tuesday threat. One of the posts said one of the 16-year-olds had been arrested and charged specifically in connection to the threat at Kipp D.C. College Preparatory while another post said the other teen was arrested and charged in connection to "multiple bomb threats."
This is not the first time Coolidge High School has received a bomb threat. WTTG-TV reported in February 2019 students had to be evacuated to a recreation center after a bomb threat, but the school was cleared shortly after.
More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats at the end of January and the beginning of February. Newsweek previously reported D.C. police said they have found no connection between these threats and the past week's threats yet, but the possibility has not been ruled out.
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Calvin Coolidge High School and Digital Pioneers Academy did not immediately respond to Newsweek's requests for comment.
Update 02/11/22 12:45 p.m. ET: This story was updated to add more information.
