Police officer suspected of making bomb threat

SENATH, Mo. -- Investigators say it was a police officer who phoned in a bomb threat Tuesday morning to the Senath Hornersville School in Senath, Mo.

Lonnie Ray Ward, 22, a full-time Hornersville, Mo., police officer and part-time officer in Senath, was charged Tuesday with making a false bomb threat. His bond was set at $5,000.

The threat was called in at 8:24 a.m. The Dunklin County Sheriff's Department responded to the school with Senath police, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, county juvenile officers, an investigator from the prosecutor's office and the Arbyrd, Mo., police.