Middle school student arrested for calling in bomb threat in Allentown: police

ALLENTOWN - An Allentown middle school student is facing charges after investigators say he called a bomb threat into his school on Monday.

What we know:

Officers from the Allentown Police Department were called to Trexler Middle School on Monday morning for reports of a bomb threat.

Investigators say a sweep of the school with explosive sniffing dogs revealed no explosives or suspicious packages on the campus.

Police later discovered that a juvenile male student was responsible for the bomb threat. 

The student was taken into custody and charged with Terroristic Threats.