(AP) — A 15-year-old youth from Canada has been arrested in Louisiana on a charge accusing him of making a phony bomb threat to an Ivy League university in New Jersey.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reports that a May 3 hearing is scheduled to decide whether he can be sent to Mercer County, New Jersey, to face a criminal count of second-degree false public alarm.
Four buildings at Princeton University were evacuated because of the prank call.
St. James Parish authorities tell the newspaper that the parish doesn’t have a juvenile detention facility, so the teen is being held in Mississippi.
His name has not been released because he’s a juvenile.