Officers responded to the college on Tuesday concerning an investigation of a college menace involving its principal, in response to the Riverside Police Department.
The division initiated a “School Threat Assessment and Response” protocol to stop further threats of violence involving the highschool, a standardized investigative process utilized by Riverside County regulation enforcement companies.”
“The Riverside Police School Resource Officer assigned to Arlington High School was contacted and capable of determine a 15-year-old male pupil because the supply of the threatening social media put up. With help from different SRO’s, the scholar was later detained,” police stated in a press release.
The teen’s residence was searched by investigators, who decided that he didn’t possess any weapons. He was booked right into a Riverside County juvenile detention facility on suspicion of constructing felony threats.
Anyone with further info concerning the felony menace was urged to contact School Resource Officer Mike Cupido at [email protected] or 951-353-7948. Tipsters preferring to stay nameless can obtain the Riverside Police Department “Atlas 1” cellular app and use the “ship a message” characteristic.
“Many of our S.T.A.R. Protocol investigations into college violence threats start with social media posts, the place the youth concerned later declare they have been solely joking,” Riverside Police Department Chief Larry Gonzalez stated in a press release.
“We deal with each put up suggesting college violence with utmost seriousness, no matter intent. Disrupting the protected surroundings of our faculties is not any laughing matter and may end up in extreme penalties.”
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