Miami, May 13 (EFE) FLL), which forced evacuations, local media reported this Saturday.
The 16-year-old, whose identity was not released, faces charges of threatening to kill, falsely reporting a bomb or firearm and disrupting a school function.
The minor was arrested in less than 24 hours and was taken to the Juvenile Evaluation Center for processing, according to local television NBC6.
According to investigators, on Friday morning the teenager called the 911 emergency number and told the operator that he was “about to carry out a bombing” at a middle school and stated that the attack would occur “in about two hours.” ”.
The investigation revealed that in the following hours the now-detainee made false bomb threats to other high schools, as well as to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, in southeast Florida, which interrupted its operations for this reason.
“It has come to our attention that the school board has received multiple identical bomb threats. As a precaution, the school board decided to evacuate Coral Glades High at this time. Everyone is safe (…). Stay tuned for updates,” Broward City Coral Springs Police said on Twitter Friday.
Starting next school year, students in schools in this county, one of the three that make up the South Florida metropolitan area, will only be able to carry transparent backpacks and purses, a measure designed to prevent violent incidents with firearms.
Broward school authorities released the announcement on social networks last Saturday, which stipulates that the regulations will take effect as of August 21, the first day of the 2023-2024 school year.
According to authorities, the purpose of this requirement is to add greater security throughout the school district and provide “additional guarantees for students, staff and teachers.” Broward County is the sixth largest public school system in the United States with more than 250,000 students.
Florida was the scene of a bloody school incident on February 14, 2018 when Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, shot inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a city located in Broward County, killing 17 people, including students and teachers, and injured 17 others.
