HAMILTON COUNTY — A 15-year-old Mcleansboro boy has been sentenced to two years probation for making a bomb threat at the Hamilton County High School on February 18th.

The teen entered a guilty plea Friday to a Class 4 felony charge of disorderly conduct.

In addition to the probation sentence, he was ordered to complete in-patient drug treatment, 100 hours of community service and pay nearly $1,600 in restitution.

The February 18 bomb threat was one in a string of school bomb threats this spring in Southern Illinois.

A 17-year-old female student from Mt Vernon Township High School was arrested on charges of Giving A False Bomb Report just days after a February 17th threat resulted in the evacuation of that school.

Another bomb threat to MVTHS remains under investigation, as does a bomb threat to Sesser-Valier.

Investigations into a bomb threat at Casey Junior High in Mt. Vernon resulted in the arrest of a 13-year-old student.

And earlier this month a 15-year-old female high school student was arrested in connection with a bomb threat that resulted in an April 11, evacuation of the Wayne City Unit 100 School.