FBI warns of increase in hoax threats at Southern California schools

The FBI is warning residents about an increase in unfounded threats in Southern California over the past couple of weeks, especially against schools.

Threats are being made through social media and letters to schools and other public places on an almost daily bases, FBI officials said.

“We treat every threat seriously and we are very adept at figuring out where the threats are originating from,” FBI Los Angeles Field Office Assistant Director Akil Davis said Wednesday. “We got really good at doing that with our social media and our cyber teams and running those threats to ground.”

Officials said that unfounded threats were made against schools in Santa Ana, Los Angeles and Burbank in just the past 10 days.

The FBI said the consequences of hoax threats can be significant including mass panic, wasting of emergency resources and disruptions in schools.

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