Students, Staff Return to Campus After Evacuating Due to Bomb Threat

Classes have resumed at Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine after it was evacuated Tuesday morning because of a bomb threat.

Grapevine police said the threat was reported at about 9:30 a.m.

Students and staff were moved to a safe location nearby while officers searched the school.

They did a full sweep of the building on foot. Then DFW Airport police brought in their bomb-sniffing dogs to go through the school again.

"We want to double-check that there is nothing in the building," said Amanda McNew, spokesperson for the Grapevine Police Dept. "That it is completely safe for everyone to go back inside."[[559260452,C]]

Nothing was found and officers determined the building was safe about two hours later at noon.

Police said the investigation now turns to who made the threat.

"We'll be looking at the call that came in, listening to the voice -- gathering any information we can get from it," said McNew. "Making a school threat is a crime. And if we are able to identify the person we would absolutely pursue criminal charges."

NBC 5's Tim Ciesco and Holley Ford contributed to this report.

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