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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Online schoolhouse threats are recirculating connected societal media officials are taking action.
Tuesday the Fresno Police Department said the posts were investigated and determination is nary credible menace to the schoolhouse district.
As a precaution, Fresno constabulary accrued their beingness connected campuses crossed the district.
Fresno Officer Luke Tran said they instrumentality each and each station earnestly and students who marque these threats volition look existent consequences.
"Not lone tin it pb to suspension, expulsion, but it tin besides pb to jailhouse time," Tran added.
Last week Fresno Unified School District received 2 schoolhouse threats, which were made connected societal media.
A 13-year-old was arrested for making threats to Scandinavian Middle School and different pupil was cited for a misdemeanor aft Ahwahnee Middle School received 3 threatening calls astir a weapon connected campus.
"If determination are these threats, that are circulating passim societal media and the assorted platforms, we counsel not to stock it, and alternatively of sharing it, telephone the PD, telephone the constabulary department, and study it to america truthful that we tin analyse it," Tran shared.
In Tulare County, 2 schools received threats successful the past 2 weeks.
A 16-year-old was arrested aft the Tulare Sheriff’s Office was notified by the FBI regarding a societal media station that idiosyncratic astatine a section precocious schoolhouse would beryllium killed.
In different incident, a 13-year-old lad was taken into custody and placed astatine the Juvenile Detention Facility for making threats to Strathmore Middle School.
"Making immoderate benignant of threat, a schoolhouse threat, a schoolhouse shooting, immoderate jokes astir firearms volition not beryllium taken lightly by instrumentality enforcement successful Tulare County, nor volition beryllium by the territory attorney's office,” said Jessica Weatherly, Tulare’s Chief Deputy District Attorney.
Weatherly said they reappraisal constabulary grounds to determine connected a prosecution, careless of the individual's age.
"If a juvenile claims aboriginal that helium was joking oregon that helium thought it was a joke, that's thing that we truly look into the totality of the circumstances," Weatherly added.
While juvenile cases are handled otherwise from big cases, Weatherly said individuals with a transgression inheritance could look up to 3 years successful situation for making a schoolhouse threat.
