No bomb found at South Lake Tahoe Y

Updated 2pm:

No explosive devices were found at the Y center in South Lake Tahoe this afternoon.

Two South Lake Tahoe detectives and the school resource officer are trying to track down the kids who made the alleged threat. They want to determine if a device may have been planted elsewhere or was a hoax.

South Tahoe High School will be released at normal hours.

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The South Lake Tahoe Raley’s center at the Y has been evacuated and South Tahoe High School is in shelter in place because of a bomb threat.

“Students are remaining in the classrooms and are in no danger,” the school district said in an email.

A Kmart employee overheard youths saying they were going to plant a bomb, South Lake Tahoe spokeswoman Tracy Franklin told Lake Tahoe News. She said the kids left the store about noon May 29 and then the employee took a walk outside. That person heard a ticking device by the mailboxes and then called the police.

Officer Aaron Crawford, who has bomb experience, saw the suspicious device and called in Tahoe Douglas bomb squad. The first Tahoe Douglas crew then called in reinforcements.

STHS is on lockdown to keep those students safe and not bring more people into the area.

Highways 89 and 50 are open, as is Lake Tahoe Boulevard, and neighboring businesses.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report