TOWN OF WALLKILL – Police agencies Monday morning investigated another
phoned in bomb threat to the Maple Hill Elementary School in the enlarged
Middletown City School District. The school was placed in lockdown.
Wallkill Town and City of Middletown Police along with the Orange County
Sheriff’s Office investigated using a K-9 unit checking for a potential
bomb at the school on Orange County Route 78 in Wallkill.
The call came in minutes before 10 a.m. from an automated voice saying
a person was inside the school and was going to blow up children and the
school.
A detailed interior and exterior search of the building and grounds disclosed
no weapons or responsible persons.
There were no injuries and the lockdown was lifted at about 11:42 a.m.
This is the latest in a series of threatening calls to the Middletown
district in recent weeks and months and the FBI has joined in the investigation.
