FRESNO (KMJ) – Authorities address a recent trend of teenagers posting threats to schools on social media sites.
Four incidents in the past week, a bomb threat and three social media postings, on Facebook and Instagram – threatening violence at schools.
Classes, buses and school activities were disrupted, and attendance was down 13 percent.
Chief Dyer joined Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson, and Central Unified Superintendent Mark Sutton to urge parents to talk to their kids.
Two 14-year-old female students, one from Edison, one from Fresno High School were arrested this week for terrorist threats.
One girl said she did it in retaliation against other female student, and in the other case the student told police it was a joke, but not to Fresno’s Police Chief Jerry Dyer who says the police investigate each and every threat as potentially credible.
“We take one of them seriously we have to,” said Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, “It’s costing the police department money and resources, we spent thousands this week alone.”
And it’s compromising the future of the teens who made the threats. The charges the two girls face have serious consequences even the possibility of time behind bars.
Chief Dyer is urging the student who made the bomb threat at Bullard high school to turn themselves in.
Here is the story by KMJ Reporter Liz Kern:
