General News: Police Arrest Student for Making Threat
April 24, 2007
04/24/2007
A 15-year-old student who attended a BOCES-Orange program at Cornwall Central High School has been charged with making a terrorist threat, a class A felony, following an incident last Thursday morning at the school.
Cornwall police chief Todd Hazard said that the student, from Washingtonville, threatened members of the BOCES school staff with making a “Columbine-type” incident the next day, the eighth anniversary of the attack at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people, plus the two student gunmen, dead.
According to Cornwall Central schools superintendent Timothy Rehm, school security personnel who overheard the threat took the student into custody immediately. Cornwall police were called to the scene and the boy was taken to Cornwall hospital for a mental health evaluation and then was admitted to Stony Lodge Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Ossining.
Cornwall police searched the teen’s residence and took a sketchbook and a notebook with drawings that belong to the boy.
Superintendent Rehm, who noted that the teen is not a Cornwall student, said that the school district takes these types of threats "very, very seriously" and investigates them immediately. “We have our district and our building safety plans for dealing with this,” he said.
Cornwall police chief Hazard stressed that today any type of threat is taken seriously. The police investigation into the case is ongoing.
Several school districts send students to attend the BOCES program held in space rented at Cornwall High School.
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