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Suffolk County Police today arrested three teenagers for conspiring to build a bomb to detonate at a Bohemia high school.

Fifth Precinct officers responded to Connetquot High School, located at 190 7^th St., after a school administrator called police this morning to say he was informed by multiple students that they overheard three students during the bus ride home on May 1 discussing building a bomb to detonate at the school.

Three 16-year-old males were arrested at the school and charged with Conspiracy 4^th Degree, a Class E Felony.

The homes of all three students were searched and one of the students possessed a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, which contains bomb making instructions.

The three will be arraigned today in youth court at First District Court in Central Islip.

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