DELTONA -- A 14-year-old Galaxy Middle School student was arrested May 12, after she made a 5-second 911 call, claiming there was a bomb at the school, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
The 8th-grade student was 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, Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.
School administrators and Sheriff's deputies quickly tracked down the 14-year-old girl who had made the call on her cell phone just before 2 p.m. while on campus.
"Word about the phone call spread rapidly...," Haught said, adding, "Since the girl was found within minutes of the call being made, there was no school lock-down. 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, pending a court appearance.