A group of middle school students is in hot water with the law after police in Grant County say they willfully filed a false report about being threatened by a man with a gun on Tuesday afternoon.

The Moses Lake Police Department says officers responded to a railroad trestle between Milwaukee Avenue and Montlake Park at around 4 p.m. after receiving reports about a man who brandished a firearm and threatened to kill a group of cross country athletes from Endeavor and Frontier Middle Schools that were jogging in the area.

Reports of the incident also triggered a response from the Grant County Sheriff's Office, who along with Moses Lake Police, immediately launched a thorough investigation into the matter.

After spending a full day searching for a potential suspect and gathering evidence,

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