A second juvenile has been arrested for a December incident involving a threatening text message against a local school, according to the Owensboro Police Department.
According to OPD, at 4:41 p.m. on December 6 officers responded to the 1800 block of Frederica Street in reference to a terroristic threatening complaint against an Owensboro Public School. (Owensboro High School is located at that address, though OPD did not identify the school by name.)
“Officers arrived and spoke with the principal of the school who advised officers she received a text message screenshot from a faculty member of a text message from a student using a Text Now App, stating he was going to commit a shooting at school the next day,” the release reads.
According to the release, “Detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division responded to investigate and were able to make contact with the student who allegedly sent the text message. The investigation revealed an individual was posing as this student. Detectives tracked down the actual sender of the text message at his residence.”
That male juvenile was charged with second-degree terroristic threatening and transported to the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center at that time.
According to an OPD release on January 12, detectives determined a second juvenile “acted jointly with Juvenile #1 to pose as a student and send the threatening text message.”
Detectives brought the second juvenile to the station for questioning and subsequently transported them to the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center on the charge of second-degree terroristic threatening.
