Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, police say

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

It mentioned its native faculty menace enforcement team was instantly notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace stated.

In video shared by authorities, the boy may be seen being led right into a police vehicle.

“This scholar’s habits is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement, noting that the threat got here simply days after the lethal college shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two lecturers dead.

“Proper now just isn't the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This youngster made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno mentioned his team “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to research the incident.

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 college taking pictures after it came to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately moving in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking information editor for NBC Information Digital based in London.