A Gorham Police vehicle is parked Monday morning at the intersection of South Street and Morrill Avenue that leads to Gorham High School after the school received a voicemail threat. Photo by Margie Petrone

Gorham High School students resumed classes Tuesday after a threat early Monday led officials to evacuate the high school building on Morrill Avenue.

Gorham Police Department detectives traced the threat to a juvenile suspect in Kentucky and contacted authorities there to interview the suspect, Gorham Deputy Police Chief Michael Nault said in a statement.

Nault said in a telephone call Tuesday that the Gorham detectives were submitting a report to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office in Maine for a review of Monday’s incident.

Schools Superintendent Heather Perry told the American Journal on Monday that a voicemail “contained a threat of violence toward the school.”

“We reached out to Gorham Police Department and together, GHS administration and (police) went through our threat analysis protocols to determine there was a moderate risk and that action should be taken,” Perry said.

Police said that the high school staff received “a threat to harm students.”

Perry said a decision placed the school “first in a lock-out situation and to then dismiss students early from school,” with police support, “out of an abundance of caution.”

School administration, staff and police worked closely together with “our incredible bus drivers” to dismiss students safely from school, Perry said.

“We have since worked with (Gorham police) to determine that the threat received came from a track phone from Kentucky and that there is no threat to GHS students,” Perry said.

Students returned to school on their normal schedule on Tuesday.

Authorities asked that anyone with additional information about the incident to contact Detective Sgt. Steven Rappold at 207-222-1660, extension 1, or email: srappold@gorham.me.us.