school threats

A teen was arrested for allegedly threatening to stab another student through direct messaging on social media, according to Coral Springs police.

Two alarming arrests. An 18-year-old was arrested after police say he threatened to stab another teen on Instagram. A 20-year-old was arrested for allegedly distributing child pornography on Snapchat in Pompano Beach.

A 13-year-old was arrested Tuesday after allegedly making threats on social media toward a school north of Tampa that caused a total of four schools to be placed on some form of a lockdown.

Police arrested a high school student who they said made threats to faculty and staff at a school on Florida’s Treasure Coast.

Police arrested a 13-year-old girl this week who allegedly threatened to blow up her central Florida school after telling police she was “bored.”

NBC 6’s Xochitl Hernandez speaks with a threat assessment team about the gravity of making school threats, no matter the medium.

The father of a 10-year-old child who was arrested in late May for allegedly making threats of a school shooting in southwest Florida said his son’s rights were violated. Dereck Marquez told NBC affiliate WESH-TV his son never made any threats despite what Lee County Sheriff’s officials said after his May 30th arrest. “He said that he obtained a...

Police arrested a 16-year-old boy for allegedly trying to recruit other students to join a mass shooting and bombing plot at Berkeley High School, officials said Wednesday.

The 10-year-old was taken into custody in Lee County after allegedly making the threats toward his school.