State police: Threat to Maine schools 'baseless'

State police said rumors of a threat on Facebook are "baseless."

By Leslie Bridgers lbridgers@pressherald.com
Staff Writer 

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Officials-to-release-information-about-reports-of-Facebook-threat.html

 

State police are saying there was no Facebook threat directed toward Maine schools, as has been rumored since Wednesday.

"We've chased baseless rumors throughout the past 24 hours and found no credible threat directed at any Maine school," Col. Robert Williams, chief of Maine State Police, said in a statement Thursday afternoon.

Police and school officials in southern Maine have been responding to reports of a threat to schools that circulated on Facebook.

School officials in several districts have stepped up security for Friday, the day reportedly mentioned in the threat.

Gorham police will hold a press conference at 3 p.m.

Andrew Dolloff, superintendent of Regional School Unit 21 in Kennebunk, said Thursday morning that Gorham officials had told him they had not seen the message, and that the information was coming from Facebook posts talking about the threat.

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