HPD Investigating Community College Bomb Threat

Last Friday, Hilo Patrol officers responded to a telephone report of a bomb left in a Hawai’i Community College, Manono Campus classroom.   No unauthorized persons, devices or explosives were found on campus during the police search.
For precautionary measures HPD conducted a search at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Kawili Street Campus, and found no unauthorized persons, devices or explosives.
Big Island police have initiated a terroristic threatening case as a result of the threat.  The investigation is being continued by detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section.
Police ask that anyone with information regarding the threat call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.
 
(Photo credit: University of Hawaiʻi Community College)