Police: Bomb Threats at Tremont Elementary, CVS Pharmacy Unrelated (UPDATE)

Update 1:51 p.m.: Principal Matt Banuelos said that someone told Police that there was a possible bomb at the school. Police then contacted school officials and responded to the scene Monday. Monday's incident is not related to the bomb threat that police and sheriff's K-9 deputies responded to Sunday at police said.

Dixon Police Sgt. Tom Cordova said a bomb threat was made against the school, but that police found no explosive devices on campus. In addition, no outside agencies were called in to help the Dixon Police Department during the search.

Cordova said there is nothing to link the two incidents and also the home invasion hoax that drew the response of the Sheriff Department's SWAT team Sunday.

Cordova declined to talk about the specifics of the bomb threats. Banuelos said that the call came in about an hour after school had let out and no students were on campus at the time.

The school is on minimum days this week for parent-teacher conferences.

Update correction: The story has been updated to say that police were told of a possible bomb at Tremont Elementary School.

Previously:

Someone out there is calling in some fake bomb threats.

On Monday, at 1:35 p.m., the responded to a report of a bomb threat on the 300 block of Pheasant Run Drive.

After a search of the area, with no success in finding a bomb, police determined that the bomb threat was unfounded.

On Sunday morning, police and the Solano County Sheriff's Department in Dixon to a similar report of a bomb threat. But after a sweep with police dogs that are specially trained to find these devices revealed nothing, that bomb threat was also deemed unfounded.

In an unrelated incident, police were also called out this month to a report of a bogus The caller told police that they were in the closet of a home on Carpenter Court in which the alleged robbers shot one of the home's occupants in the neck.

After a full SWAT response, involving the Solano Sheriff's Department, converged at the Dixon home, police determined that it was a false report.

The Dixon Police Department is currently working alongside of AT&T, the phone company that the caller reported the fake crime to, to find the person culpable in that incident.

Police say that the incident is related to a trend called SWATing, in which callers crank call police to have SWAT teams respond to a fake incident, possibly to divert resources from other police calls or potential crimes.

No word yet if police feel that these three incidents are connected, but we will continue to update the story as we gather more information.

Should the prank callers, once found, be forced to pay for the resources expended during these police responses? Tell us in the comments.

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