Police didn’t have much difficulty arresting two teenagers Friday who are accused of phoning in a bomb threat at Southwest Middle School.

That’s because the two teen boys - along with a third still being sought - used the telephone at the house they were burglarizing, but they didn’t call the school, police said.

They delivered the threat by dialing 911.

“This indicates they would have been better off in school rather than burglarizing someone’s house,” said Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson. “Clearly that was not the brightest plan.”

Two of the boys were in jail Friday night. Police were searching for the third.

Around 9 a.m. Friday, 911 dispatchers received the call reporting a bomb in the cafeteria at Southwest Middle School. As with any 911 call, those receiving it trace the call to its source. Officers rushed to the location of the call at The Oaks at Brandlewood apartment complex on Garrard Avenue.

They arrived to find the apartment had been broken into. Officers searched the neighborhood and spotted the three teenager boys, whose arms were full of jewelry, video game systems, DVDs and other electronics, Wilson said.

Officers attempted to stop the boys, but they ran back to the apartment complex.

Police chased and apprehended two of them - Pierre Brown, 17, and a 14-year-old Southwest Middle student. Police did not identify the 14-year-old because of his juvenile status.

As officers were searching the neighborhood for the third suspect, they found a second apartment burglarized, Wilson said. Moreover, there had been a break-in at a house on Sandlewood Drive.

Police believe the teens pried open the doors and ransacked the homes for anything of value.

The two boys who were arrested are charged with three counts of burglary. Campus Police plan to charge both with transmitting a false public alarm, which is a felony, said Bucky Burnsed, spokesman for the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System.

Pierre was being held in the Chatham County jail. The 14-year-old was taken to the Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center.

K-9s tracked the third suspect, but the dogs were unable to locate him. No description of the third boy was available.

However, the dogs did find more of the items stolen in the burglaries, which were returned to their owners, Wilson said.

Police said the two teens, who live in the neighborhood where the burglaries occurred, are being investigated in a string of other crimes in the area.

“We’ve seen a sharp increase in burglaries in West Chatham County within the last week,” Wilson said. “Both of the individuals caught (Friday) have extensive records for these types of crimes.”

Brown is not a student in the public school system. He was released from the detention center last month.

“This goes right to the heart of truancy,” Wilson said. “School-age children who are out and about during normal school hours are typically engaged in criminal activity. That’s why we take truancy so seriously.”

The phony bomb threat caused middle school students to miss almost three hours of classes while bomb-sniffing K-9s combed the hallways, Burnsed said.

Police found no evidence of any explosives.

Besides these teens, Campus Police have arrested 10 people so far this year on bomb threat charges.

Haha.. Perhaps these kids should stay in school. It couldnt hurt.

This article was found on SavannahNow.com