{"id":13026,"date":"2025-10-20T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:27:06","slug":"port-st-lucie-florida-teen-arrested-for-tiktok-bomb-threat-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13026\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie, Florida teen arrested for TikTok bomb threat prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 14-year-old boy from Port St. Lucie was arrested after creating a TikTok video claiming Southport Middle School would be bombed, which police determined was a prank. On Sunday, Port St. Lucie police began receiving calls from concerned parents about an online video. The video featured white lettering that read, &#8220;On Monday the 20th Southport Middle is getting bombed by me. Stay home alright.&#8221;Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsOfficials said the TikTok account, titled &#8220;Benjamin Franklyn,&#8221; had an IP address registered through Comcast. The investigation led detectives to a home in Port St. Lucie, where they identified the boy, who attends Southport Middle School. Police said the investigation revealed that the threat was meant as a prank and that the juvenile did not possess any bomb-making materials.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.The 14-year-old was arrested within five hours of police being notified. He is charged with one count of electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct an act of terrorism.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old boy from Port St. Lucie was arrested after creating a TikTok video claiming Southport Middle School would be bombed, which police determined was a prank. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Port St. Lucie police began receiving calls from concerned parents about an online video. The video featured white lettering that read, &#8220;On Monday the 20th Southport Middle is getting bombed by me. Stay home alright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials said the TikTok account, titled &#8220;Benjamin Franklyn,&#8221; had an IP address registered through Comcast. The investigation led detectives to a home in Port St. Lucie, where they identified the boy, who attends Southport Middle School. Police said the investigation revealed that the threat was meant as a prank and that the juvenile did not possess any bomb-making materials.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old was arrested within five hours of police being notified. He is charged with one count of electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy from Port St. Lucie was arrested after creating a TikTok video claiming Southport Middle School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,11714],"class_list":{"0":"post-13026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-teen-arrested-for-tiktok-bomb-threat-prank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}