High School, College Closed After Suspicious Package Found

Sanford, N.C. — A community college and a high school were shut down part of Monday after a suspicious package with a threatening note was found, officials said.

The package was found Monday morning at the Crescent State Bank branch on 870 Spring Lane. The bank was evacuated, and several members of a bomb squad from Fort Bragg were called in to help Sanford police handle the situation, officials said.

The package was disposed of, and employees were allowed to return to the bank before 11 a.m., officials said.

A note found with the package named Lee County High School and Central Carolina Community College and threatened violence against them, officials said.

School administrators and Sanford police searched the Lee County High campus, and students there were being dismissed at 12:30 p.m. as a precaution, said Sharon Spence, spokeswoman for Lee County Schools. All other area schools were on a regular schedule, she said.

Students attending classes at Central Carolina as part of the Lee Early College High School also were dismissed early, and officials ordered that the entire college campus be evacuated between 2 and 5 p.m.

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ok, let's see. Which is more important, making sure a child is fed or making sure a child is not blown into pulp. I would rather have my child go hungry for one meal than to have her body parts scraped off the walls.

dasniggle
January 30, 2007 3:46 p.m.

da_sniggle: The children's safety was not put second. The couldn't evacuate until 12:30 because they need to FEED the children. Also, to evacuate immediatley might have caused the bomb to go off, had there been one. So maybe, instead of automatically thinking the staff is at fault, YOU need to think of the children's safety and well-being.

ukyorocks126
January 30, 2007 11:09 a.m.

Lee county has been a dissapointment from the first few months I lived here. My daughter is a student at Lee Senior, I must say that I am not impressed by the school or staff. To think that a threat against the school was less important than getting credit for a full day does not surprise me. Our children's saftey has come second many times. Anyone who would walk through the school and see the condition it is in would understand. The ceiling is falling down in many places, The walls are falling apart, windows broken and leaking, the heating system started smoking and was not shut down, rooms that can not be heated or cooled propperly, and that just to name a few things. Lee Senior is a fire trap, but no one is doing anything about it, not until students end up dying, THEN some one might pay attention.

dasniggle
January 30, 2007 10:32 a.m.

what was in the package? ;(

Execution Style
January 30, 2007 6:59 a.m.

The reason the school had to wait until 12:30 to let out was because they have to feed us, the students, lunch. That might be the only meal a student gets, so they have to let us eat. So, it's not because they wanted to show it as a full day. They were thinking of the kids that aren't so fortunate, and can't go home and eat.

ukyorocks126
January 29, 2007 6:36 p.m.