Huntington High Student Charged with Making Threat
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Updated: 9:07 PM Mar 16, 2010
Huntington High Student Charged with Making Threat
Huntington Police Capt. Rick Eplin says the male teen was arrested following an investigation into a threatening text message that what was circulated at Huntington High School on Tuesday.
Posted: 2:30 PM Mar 16, 2010
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A 16-year-old student at Huntington High School has been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats.

Huntington Police Capt. Rick Eplin says the male teen was arrested following an investigation into a threatening text message that was circulated at Huntington High on Tuesday.

Eplin says the investigation determined there was "no overt threat or apparent intent to carry out any type of violent act” at the school.

He says a search of the juvenile’s home did not reveal anything that would be cause for concern.

Eplin says due to the unnecessary concern that such an act causes, the juvenile was arrested.

The teen has been released to custody of his parents.

Cabell Schools Spokesperson Jedd Flowers says he expects disciplinary action to be taken against the student.

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Posted by: anonymous on Mar 18, 2010 at 01:51 PM

yes i think tht all this is kind of frightening i didnt want my brother to go to school bt he had to bt i kinda understand tht he cant just run in fear and all im saying is the skewl need more sucurity the kids punishment is nt my concern its my brothers safty because my brother isa good kid and whoever said something about alternative skewl well i go to alternative school and kids are being sent there from hhs for like 45 days for cussing at a teacher and my brother got sent there for something little and he doesnt really get in trouble he has lots of friends and can be good to get along with as long as you respect him to so the hhs needs to stop sending kids to alternative school for little stuff kids that need to be in their are the ones nt being cought because their is nt enough security and this isnt just hhs tht needs security bt i was reading the news paper and it ha a guy walk in the school and sign in and 3 hours later a couple of rifle bullets were found from a shooting sos
Posted by: It happened at Midland last year on Mar 18, 2010 at 05:46 AM

I had tried to add a comment that this isn't the first time a student in Cabell has been arrested on this charge...it happened in Nov. of 2009 at Midland. The student was 18 yrs. old is the only difference. But people want to make HHS out to seem like it is a horrible school and has problem no other school has. HHS is just closer to the city of Huntington and the media has always, since it opened, made sure that everything negative was printed about it. Did the school over-react? No, because the law is the law and if it wasn't reported, parents would be upset that nothing was done, or if something had happened and they didn't report it, parents would be furious, so they did do the right thing. They protected the rest of the school from a possible tragedy. Should the parents be held accountable? According to the law, yes, they are responsible for their children 100% of the time. Even when they aren't with them. They may be raised in a wonderful home and it doesn't mean it won't happen.
Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28 PM

Hmm, right in line with the juvenile justice report that says our system overreaches. Administrators need to get a grip, do you know they actually camped out in front of students home to see if they in deed lived in the district. Seriously? The place is a horrible.
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