Felony charge dropped for student who made bomb threat against Mercer County School

PRINCETON, W.Va. — A student who threatened to blow up Princeton Senior High School in Mercer County entered a plea agreement on Thursday, and will not face felony charges.

According to the County Clerk’s Office, Jasmine Nichole Keith, 18, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the school. Keith was originally charged with threatening to commit a terroristic act, which is a felony, when she wrote a note that said “time bomb the school up at 1 o’clock.” When the note was discovered on September 11th, students were evacuated while Princeton Police and a K-9 bomb sniffing dog were brought in to search the building.

On Thursday, Keith was sentenced to 30 days in jail but the sentence was suspended. She will be required to serve two years of supervised probation and perform 100 hours of community service with the Mercer County Day Report Center.

When she was arrested on September 12th, Keith told police that she wrote the note to get out of school.





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