Boy, 15, Held After Alleged Threat on Teacher
Authorities confiscated 20 pistols, rifles and shotguns from the home of a 15-year-old New Jersey boy who threatened his ninth-grade teacher a day after last week’s shootings in Springfield, Ore., police said Tuesday.
The youth on Friday had shown the female teacher at Pinelands Regional High School a drawing of a human figure in the cross hairs of a rifle scope, officers said. The guns seized Saturday in a search of the family’s home were all legally owned by the boy’s father.
The unidentified suspect was arraigned Tuesday on juvenile charges of making terrorist threats. He was released into the custody of his parents.
In Wheeling, W. Va., meanwhile, two high school seniors were charged Tuesday with plotting to bomb their graduation ceremony.
Word of the alleged plot prompted the cancellation of Sunday’s commencement for about 100 students at St. Marys High School.
William Jeremy Dotson and Jesse W. Shingleton, both 18, were charged with conspiracy to violate explosives law. Officers seized what they said were bomb-making chemicals from Dotson’s home.
Dotson’s mother called the case a misunderstanding.
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