May 12, 2008
Brandon Haught
Public Information Office

FALSE BOMB REPORT LEADS TO TEEN'S ARREST 

A five-second call to 911 claiming that there was a bomb at a Deltona school landed a teenager in hot water Monday afternoon. The 8^th-grade student is charged with making a false report of a bomb when she told the 911 operator, “There’s a bomb at Galaxy Middle School” and immediately hung up. School administrators and Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputies quickly tracked down the 14-year-old girl who had made the call while on campus.

The 911 call came into the Sheriff’s Office at approximately 1:57 p.m. from a cell phone. Word about the phone call spread rapidly on the campus, enabling school administrators to identify the caller: Rebecca Turner. Since the girl was found within minutes of the call being made, there was no school lockdown. The Deltona girl was arrested without incident, and she said that she made the call due to peer pressure. She was transported to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach.