UPDATE: Parents, faculty and students have been told that the evacuation at Creekside High School Monday morning has been lifted.
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St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said that Creekside High School was evacuated Monday morning due to a bomb threat. SJSO posted the following about the threat on its Facebook page:
LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY AT CREEKSIDE HS: SJSO received information this morning from a subject who was on a “dark web” site and observed a photo of a backpack and language about a “few bombs” being placed around Creekside High School. Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) analysts discovered the photograph is associated with a bomb threat investigation from 2011 in Spokane Washington. Out of caution, students and staff will be evacuated to a safe location while a K9 conducts a search of the school.
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