A 14-year-old Montgomery juvenile has been arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat against Opelika High School after the campus was locked down while police cleared the area on Tuesday.
The Opelika High School is still on lockdown over an hour after law enforcement responded to the school after the School Resource Officer called the police over a “possible external threat.”
After a slew of online threats made against Alabama schools and a school shooting in Georgia earlier this month, the Alabama Education Association is taking the opportunity to boast of its legislative efforts in passing a teacher’s bill of rights and encourage teachers to join the AEA.
While nothing has materialized into actual violence, the flurry of statewide arrests continues following the scary trend of various threats being made to public schools across the state.
Law enforcement across the state has made a slew of recent arrests in a continued saga that involves online threats to public schools in the state that has led to over a dozen juveniles being arrested, with more occurring every day.
Multiple juveniles were arrested on Friday following a bizarre trend this week of minors running afoul of law enforcement for making terroristic threats to schools across the state on social media.
Montgomery police have arrested a fourth juvenile in relation to online threats to local schools that occurred at the genesis of a statewide trend of schools being placed on high alert due to threats to schools.
More Alabama public schools are on alert in response to a recent trend in the state of online threats targeting public schools that have already led to multiple arrests this week.
A total of six juveniles have been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats that sent shockwaves through the River Region over the weekend after multiple social media posts making violent threats to surrounding schools flooded social media.
Two 13-year-olds have been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats in a saga that sent schools and parents reeling in the tri-county area over the weekend.