General News: Teen Admits Threat at High School
May 02, 2007
A 15-year-old Blooming Grove student charged with making a terrorist threat at Cornwall high school last week has admitted his guilt.
Orange County assistant attorney Janine Sarbak says that the teen admitted in Family Court in Goshen on Tuesday that he told a security guard at the high school, “Wait until tomorrow. It will be Columbine.” He also admitted that he said he had “more stuff than the police in this town.” He made the threat the day before the eighth anniversary of the Columbine high school attack by two students that left 13 people, plus the gunmen, dead.
Cornwall police chief Todd Hazard said that after the teen made the threat police searched his home where they found a 22-calibre rifle and a shotgun. Assistant county attorney Sarbak confirmed that police also found several photos, including one of the boy wearing a mask-like bandana and holding a weapon. Another photo showed the boy’s cat taped to the wall. That photo led to a charge of torturing animals, a misdemeanor. He admitted guilt for that charge as well.
Sarbak noted that the teen is currently being held at a juvenile detention center and is scheduled for sentencing on May 8.
The teen, who is a student in the Washingtonville school system, was attending a BOCES program that is conducted at Cornwall high school for students from several school districts.
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