Teenage twins plead guilty to bomb threat

BLOOMFIELD, Ind. – Twin 16-year-old sisters have both been sentenced to the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility and fined after they pleaded guilty to calling in bomb threats to their southern Indiana high school.\nMary and Gracy Stone of Bloomfield pleaded guilty to two counts each of false reporting. Charges of conspiracy to commit false reporting were dropped in the plea agreement.\nThe girls were charged after calling in bomb threats to Bloomfield High School on Aug. 23 and Aug. 31. Classes at the school about 25 miles west of Bloomington were canceled Aug. 31 because of the threat.\nIn court Tuesday, Gracy Stone tearfully testified that they called in the bomb threats in a plot to run away from home.\nShe said they wanted to leave home because of drug use and violence there.\n“I felt like I couldn’t get away,” she said as her sister, Mary Stone, sat crying in the courtroom.\nHer father had no visible reaction to the testimony. When asked by the judge whether he understood what was happening, he said he understood the girls needed to be punished.\nThe twins were ordered to pay $5,442 in restitution to the Bloomfield School District and the two Greene County fire departments that responded.\nGreene Circuit Judge Erik Allen said the girls would be on probation until the age of 18. Their time at the school would be determined by periodic reviews of their progress. If they are allowed to leave, a hearing would determine where they would go.