Los Angeles — Authorities arrested eight California students for allegedly making threats that included a plot to put a bomb on a teacher's desk and the creation of a hit list.
In the desert town of Twentynine Palms, two 17-year-old boys were arrested at their homes Tuesday night on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and civil rights violations.
At one of the boys' homes, deputies found a rifle. At the other, there was a list of 16 fellow students at Monument High that the pair planned to target, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokesman Chip Patterson said. The teens' motives were unknown.
Police said they were tipped by a classmate, who told her father she had overheard the boys discussing a hit list in recent weeks.
She came forward after a student in suburban San Diego on Monday opened fire at his high school, killing two students and wounding 13 others.
Also Tuesday, three junior high school students in San Bernardino County were arrested for threatening to place a bomb on a teacher's desk, authorities said. Classmates at Woodcrest Junior High alerted the principal.
The two 12-year-olds and a 13-year-old talked about the plot last week after one of the boys had a disagreement with a teacher, Ontario Detective Mike Macias said. But no bomb-making materials were found at their homes.
In Camden, N.J., a 15-year-old honor student was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot members of a clique in wood shop class. Police said the boy, whose identity was not disclosed, may have been angry about comments made about his father, who died last year. No weapons were found at his home.
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