The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:35 PM
Claiborne High School 15-Year Old Freshman Wrote Threatening Note To Get Out Of School Thursday
According to CCSO, the school resource officer obtained the note and saw that it made threats to kill students and teachers beginning Friday morning.
After a thorough investigation by CCSO and the New Tazewell Police Department, the juvenile was taken into custody after he admitted to writing the note. He said the note was a prank, and that he did not mean to hurt anyone. According to the sheriff's office, he said the note was his way to get out of school.
CCSO said the student was charged with making a false report and disrupting a meeting. A juvenile judge ordered that the student be placed into custody and held at the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center in Knoxville.
The sheriff's office said the child would be transferred back to Claiborne County next Monday for a detention hearing.
"Because of the world we live in today, threats such as these are taken very seriously," Claiborne County Sheriff David Ray said. "Protecting the children of Claiborne County and the teachers who teach them is my top priority. People who choose to threaten others by whatever means, will be thoroughly investigated, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
