By George P. Hassett

Police have charged a fifteen year old juvenile from Somerville with three counts of making false bomb threat reports earlier this month. Capt. Paul Upton said officers tried to get an arrest warrant for the boy but were denied one.

The boy allegedly called in three false bomb threats on Jan. 9 to City Hall and Somerville High from the cell phones of two other students.

As a result of the calls, City Hall was evacuated for a short time while Police and City Hall officials searched the building. A short time later, another bomb threat was phoned in directly to Somerville High School.  A third bomb threat was called in to the High School at 10:10 a.m., police said.

Later that day, detectives were informed by the school principal that she had received information naming a possible suspect, a student at the school.

A criminal complaint charging the student with three counts of making a false report of the location of explosives was filed in Cambridge Juvenile Court.  The juvenile has been arraigned on these charges

Police Chief Anthony Holloway said, ‚ÄúThis kind of behavior causes great anxiety to city employees, to students and to their families and will not be excused or tolerated. The Somerville Police Department will aggressively investigate any such incidents, which are felonies in Massachusetts.‚Äù