{"id":176769,"date":"2026-03-03T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176769\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:33:07","slug":"14-year-old-arrested-for-active-shooter-hoax-at-florida-school-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176769\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old arrested for active shooter hoax at Florida school, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 14-year-old has been arrested after causing a large law enforcement response Monday afternoon at University High School in Orlando, the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Tuesday. The teen called 911 to report an active shooter, OCSO said. &#8220;That call elicited a massive law enforcement response \u2013 and those deputies could not be in their areas addressing real crime,&#8221; OCSO said. &#8220;All because someone thought it would be hilarious to call 911 and make up a story that is every parent and student\u2019s nightmare.&#8221;OCSO said hoax threats are a crime, and in this case, it&#8217;s a felony.Video below: Chopper 2 was over the massive response\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old has been arrested after causing a large law enforcement response Monday afternoon at University High School in Orlando, the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The teen called 911 to report an active shooter, OCSO said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That call elicited a massive law enforcement response \u2013 and those deputies could not be in their areas addressing real crime,&#8221; OCSO said. &#8220;All because someone thought it would be hilarious to call 911 and make up a story that is every parent and student\u2019s nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OCSO said hoax threats are a crime, and in this case, it&#8217;s a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Video below: Chopper 2 was over the massive response<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hoax threats are a crime.<\/p>\n<p>And on March 2, a 14-year-old was arrested after he called 911 to report an active shooter at University High School.<\/p>\n<p>That call elicited a massive law enforcement response \u2013 and those deputies could not be in their areas addressing real crime.<\/p>\n<p>All\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1EalA43cEp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1EalA43cEp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OrangeCoSheriff\/status\/2028911801820430636?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old has been arrested after causing a large law enforcement response Monday afternoon at University High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[83519,83516,64194,83521,83517,63951,11875,660,33237,139,141,140,5661,83520,2956,1464,83518],"class_list":{"0":"post-176769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-14-year-old","9":"tag-active-shooter-hoax","10":"tag-florida-school","11":"tag-hoax-threat","12":"tag-massive-law-enforcement-response","13":"tag-nightmare","14":"tag-ocso","15":"tag-office","16":"tag-orange-county-sheriff","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-parent","21":"tag-real-crime","22":"tag-student","23":"tag-tuesday","24":"tag-university-high"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176769","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=176769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}