Stephanie Graham Hull

A Sparta High School student was arrested last weekend for allegedly making a bomb threat at her high school September 18.

According to Sparta Police Chief Andrew Milanowski, a warrant was issued for Stephanie Graham Hull, 18, on September 23, and she was arrested by Grand Rapids Police on Sunday, September 27, after police received a tip on her whereabouts.

Hull is charged with one count of False Report or Threat of Bomb/harmful device, which is a four-year felony. She bonded out on $25,000 cash/surety and will be arraigned on October 7 at 8:30 a.m. in 63rd District Court Rockford.

The bomb threat was called into the school on the morning of September 18, before classes started. Students already in the building were evacuated, and those arriving were not let in until the school had been searched by bomb-sniffing canines. School resumed around 10:30 a.m.

Milanowski said he is uncertain why she might have called in the threat. He said that Hull takes both high school and college courses, but noted that there had been numerous complaints involving her recently. On the same day she allegedly made the bomb threat, she was arrested and later released by the Kent County Sheriff Department for false report of a felony. Milanowski said that issue was unrelated to the bomb threat.