The $10K Blackmail-Bomb Threat Behind High School Lockdown

Hoax Bomb Threat Triggers Three-Hour Lockdown at Windsor High

Classes were cut short in Windsor on Friday after a high-stakes “swatting” call sent Windsor High School into a three-hour lockdown. The Press Democrat reports the scare began around 11:50 a.m. when an unknown caller claimed to be in the school parking lot with explosives, demanding $10,000 in cash. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, alongside the CHP and local fire crews, swarmed the campus, deploying drones and bomb-sniffing dogs to sweep the…

The $10K Blackmail-Bomb Threat Behind High School Lockdown

A strange $10k demand that triggered a high school's lockdown and campus search. The campus was not the only one: Sonoma County Sheriff.