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By: The opinion Posted Aug 23, 2023, 1:37 am EDT
A student from Sarasota County, on the west coast of Florida (USA), was arrested Tuesday for threatening on social media to detonate a bomb at Venice High Schoolreported a local media.
The student of said school, whose age and name were not released, was arrested by officers with the Sarasota County Police Department (SCSPD) after being alerted by the Venice High School administration.
The boy He was, in addition to being arrested, expelled from schooleven though it was a “joke”.
The fake bomb threat took place on social media and this publication was reported to the school authorities anonymously, the Fox4 channel picked up today.
After the recent start of the new school year, several cases of arrests due to threats of shootings or bombs have already been reported.
This case adds to the recent event that took place just last week, when A 22-year-old man was arrested for also threatening a shooting on social media at Loogers Run Middle Schoolin Palm Beach County, southeast Florida, aimed at six students from that educational center where he was a student.
With the message on the social platform Discord; “I, Dominic Valentine, promise to shoot 6 students at Logger Run High School on Monday morning,” Fernando Gaete, based in the city of Boca Raton, was arrested and transferred to a prison in that county on the charge of “threatening written to carry out a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.”
Miami-Dade and Broward County Police in South Florida have repeatedly urged parents to remind their children that “any threat, even if they think it’s a joke, carries serious consequences”, since it is considered a second degree felony, in addition to school disciplinary measures, including expulsion.
*With information from EFE.
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