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On March 1, 2007, all students and faculty were evacuated from the building at approximately 12:30 PM. The principal, Mr. Robert Williams, stated over the school loudspeaker that it was a drill and did not allow students to contact their parents. Students and teachers boarded buses to the nearby Wemrock Brook Elementary School. However, it wasn't a drill. A note stating that the school would be bombed at 1:00 PM that same day. Police dogs were sent in to sniff for explosives; firemen and policemen investigated MEMS. It turned out to be a false alarm; the fourteen-year-old student who wrote the note was caught and arrested at 8:00 PM on March 2 and sent to Monmouth County Youth Detention Center. On March 2, Mr. Williams and the vice principal encouraged students to give up any information they had about the bomb threat.
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