General News: Teen Sentenced for Threat
May 09, 2007
A 15-year-old Washingtonville student received an 18-month sentence on Tuesday in Orange County Family Court for making a terrorist threat at Cornwall High School last month. The teen was also sentenced for torturing an animal at his home in Blooming Grove.
The teen pleaded guilty last week and admitted 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, along with photos of a cat taped to a wall.
The teen was attending a BOCES program that is conducted at Cornwall high school for students from several school districts.
He will serve the 18-month sentence in a juvenile detention facility.
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