By Jim Smith

Butler Eagle Staff Writer

CHICORA — A part-time cafeteria worker is charged with threatening to blow up the Chicora Elementary School earlier this month.

---- State police Thursday charged Kimberly L. McElravy, 52, of Petrolia with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats and harassment, and a summary charge of disorderly conduct.

---- McElravy is accused of making the threat to other employees while in the cafeteria shortly before 8:50 a.m. Feb. 5.

---- The defendant allegedly said, “I will bring in my oxygen tank and blow up the school,” according to court documents.

---- Police said she later admitted making the threat. No one was injured.

---- The alleged threat happened in front of other employees and no children were present, Karns City School District Superintendent Eric Ritzert said Friday.

---- “It occurred in a nonschool setting,” he said.

---- Students were never in any danger, he said, and the incident did not disrupt the school day.

---- Ritzert said McElravy is still employed in the district. She has been on unpaid leave since the incident.

---- She has worked as a part-time cafeteria employee for the district for more than five years.

---- A preliminary hearing for McElravy was not immediately set at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton.