A man has been arrested after making a threat to Bells Elementary on Monday.
The Crockett County Sheriff’s Department says the school was put on a soft lockdown Monday morning after the school received a threatening call.
The school received a call at 9 indicating a threat would occur in an hour. Bells Police along with the Crockett County Sheriff Department and Department of Homeland Security responded and began an investigation that led them to 36-year-old Nicholas Swift.
Swift was charged with terrorism hoax, filing a false report, and threatening mass violence at a school.