5th grader threatened to blow up schools, shoot teachers, students, say Ind. cops

(CBS/AP) YORKTOWN, Ind. - We hope you're smarter than this fifth-grader.

Police in central Indiana have arrested an 11-year-old on charges that he threatened to blow up several school buildings and shoot students and teachers in Yorktown.

The fifth-grade boy was arrested Wednesday in connection with a message that was left on the Yorktown Community Schools voice mail system on Friday, sending the district into lockdown mode from Tuesday through Wednesday morning.

Yorktown Marshal Todd St. John tells The Star Press that the boy told officers he called in the threat because he was bored and meant it as a joke.

Officers and bomb-sniffing dogs searched the school buildings for the district just outside Muncie on Tuesday.

St. John says several Yorktown Elementary students reported odd behavior by the boy. He was being held in a juvenile detention center.