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-- Danette Goulet

Another bomb threat has been found scrawled on a high school bathroom

wall, this time at Newport Harbor High School.

But police in Newport Beach said they are not taking the threat

seriously.

“Something was written in the bathroom regarding a bomb threat, but we

took it as a suspicious circumstance incident and not a crime because we

don’t believe it is credible,” said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Steve

Shulman.

Shulman said when investigators studied the writing on the bathroom

wall Tuesday, they felt it was not a real threat.

“The reason they didn’t is because the info they got from the bathroom

was that it was not written very large, it was in pencil, and there were

also several dates on it,” he said.

Shulman added that the school had found the message Friday and not

reported it until late Monday afternoon.

The threat is similar to one found last month at Costa Mesa High

School that was taken seriously.

There, two girls found an anti-Semitic bomb threat scrawled on the

girls’ bathroom wall that warned of a bomb on Friday the 13th. Police and special security were called in and scoured the campus. The threat turned

out to be fake.