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Police say student who reported gunman at school was 'sluffing'

12/04/2015 12:24 pm PST
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KSTU - "The student is accused of making a terrorist threat and could be facing felony charges in connection with the incident."

via KSTU:

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah -- (KSTU) -- A lockdown and heavy police response was initiated at Pleasant Grove High School Thursday after a student reported seeing someone with a gun, and police said the student who reported the sighting made the false report in an effort to skip out on some kind of school activity.

FOX 13 News' Jeff McAdam reports police confirmed that the student who made the report has admitted they made it up. Mike Smith, Chief of the Pleasant Grove Police Department, said the student was "sluffing" and trying to get out of some sort of school activity.

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