Bomb threat unfounded, area safe at Andrew Hill High School

EAST SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A bomb threat at Andrew Hill High School in East San Jose was "unfounded" and San Jose police have permitted nearby residents back into their homes and halted road closures.

Police reopened a local neighborhood around the high school, at 3200 Senter Road by East Capitol Expressway, shortly before 5 p.m. after closing it for several hours as a precaution, Officer Albert Morales said.

There are no suspects in the reported bomb threat and police are still investigating the incident, Morales said.

At about 1:28 p.m. today, a police dispatcher received a report that a bomb might be on the high school campus, according to Morales.

Officers ordered the school locked down as the Police Department's bomb squad was sent there, East Side Union High School District superintendent Chris Funk said.

Police then had the approximately 2,000 students evacuated to Sylvandale Middle School a few blocks to the south at 653 Sylvandale Ave., Funk said.

The students were escorted as they walked to the middle school, where their parents could pick them up while police searched Andrew Hill's

campus for any explosives, Funk said.

Earlier, officers spoke on the phone with "a strange man" who told them he placed a bomb on the school campus. The man was "asking for a ransom," Funk said.

The school district made electronic phone calls notifying parents about picking up their children at Sylvandale, Funk said.