{"id":180454,"date":"2026-03-06T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180454\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:06:12","slug":"florida-sheriff-parades-two-pint-sized-perps-10-and-11-in-front-of-camera-after-they-allegedly-threatened-to-shoot-classmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180454\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sheriff parades two pint-sized perps, 10 and 11, in front of camera after they allegedly threatened to shoot classmates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two young students were arrested just one day apart in the same Florida county this week after each allegedly made violent \u201cidiotic threats\u201d against their classmates and teachers.<\/p>\n

Anthony Steward, 11, and Micah Swinnie, 10, were both marched out of patrol cars by members of the Volusia Sheriff\u2019s Office for allegedly threatening to kill their teachers and classmates.<\/p>\n

Anthony Steward, 11, allegedly threatened to kill seven of his teachers. Volusia Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Steward, a student at the DeLand Middle School, apparently hijacked a classmate\u2019s Gradebook Communications account and fired off the message \u201cimma shoot you\u201d to seven teachers, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The troublemaker was stone-faced as he was led inside the sheriff\u2019s office, according to a chilling video<\/a> shared on Facebook Thursday. When an officer was securing handcuffs around Steward\u2019s wrists, the boy complained that they felt \u201creal tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steward was previously arrested for making the same threats against members of a different school community. Volusia Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

The cop swiftly schooled Steward, telling the pint-sized pest that he could have avoided being cuffed altogether if he hadn\u2019t made the purported threats in the first place.<\/p>\n

Steward\u2019s booking marked his second visit to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

He was also arrested in October for making the exact same threats \u2014 again through a classmate\u2019s Gradebook Communications account \u2014 against community members at Southwestern Middle School.<\/p>\n

Swinnie, a student at Pride Elementary School, was perp-walked Wednesday after he allegedly left a \u201clist of people who i\u2019m gunna kill\u201d at a desk inside a classroom where he also scrawled a promise to bring a gun to school on the whiteboard, according to a post from the sheriff\u2019s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Micah Swinnie, 10, allegedly left a \u201clist of people who i\u2019m gunna kill\u201d at a desk. Volusia Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like a confinement in there,\u201d Swinnie said while he exited the police car, his hands cuffed behind his back.<\/p>\n

He insisted that he didn\u2019t mean the threat, and his parent assured police that he doesn\u2019t have access to a firearm, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

The little agitator was kept in custody on a felony charge of making a written threat to kill, though it\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll be formally charged.<\/p>\n

Swinnie also allegedly wrote that he was going to bring a gun to school on a whiteboard. Volusia Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Both boys were dressed in school spirit apparel when they were remanded into police custody.<\/p>\n

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, fed up after arresting two juveniles on the same day, bashed those who \u201ccoddle\u201d kids who \u201cchoose to make threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can pat them on the head and tell them everything\u2019s going to be alright. My job is to look out for everyone else. These idiotic threats disrupt our schools, eat up time and resources, and increase the chances a real threat slips through the cracks,\u201d Chitwood wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can threaten to shoot 7 teachers you can take a perp walk. Parents, discipline your kids and I won\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young students were arrested just one day apart in the same Florida county this week after each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[692,28,30,29,85307,132,3384,4278],"class_list":["post-180454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrest","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-juvenile-detention","tag-police","tag-students","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180454","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=180454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}