Betz Elementary School evacuated after bomb threat

A bomb threat last Tuesday afternoon, March 31, led to the evacuation of students at Cheney’s Betz Elementary School.

Cheney Police Chief John Hensley said at 1:04 p.m. a woman contacted 911, telling the operator “I have a bomb in my car and a detonator and I am driving around Betz school right now and I will set the bomb off.”

Hensley said Cheney Police contacted school district staff at Betz, and after arrival locked down the school. The students were removed from the school and taken to the Cheney High School gym next door, something Hensley said might not have been possible if the threat h...