A 13-year-old boy was arrested after he allegedly triggered a lockdown at a Broward school by reporting a fake threat on Wednesday because he lost a bet, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said they received reports of a possible threat to Deerfield Beach Middle School around 12:30 p.m. About 15 minutes later, they received reports of a possible threat to Cypress Bay High School in Weston.<\/p>\n
Both schools were placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution, officials said.<\/p>\n
Deputies and detectives responded to both schools to investigate, and Cypress Bay was later given the all clear.<\/p>\n
During the investigation detectives learned someone called 911 and said they were \u201cabout to shoot the school,” officials said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said on Thursday that they had arrested a suspect in connection to the Deerfield Beach case who was himself a student at the middle school. NBC6 is not identifying him because he is a minor and is not charged as an adult. <\/p>\n
The 13-year-old told investigators he had been playing “rock, paper, scissors” and said if he lost, he would have to call 911.<\/p>\n
After he lost he made the call about the shooting threat, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The teen was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center for processing. He faces charges of false report concerning the use of a firearm in a violent manner, unlawful use of a two-way communication device, misuse of 911 and disruption of a school function.<\/p>\n
Detectives believe the Cypress Bay High incident isn’t related to the Deerfield Beach Middle incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a game and there is nothing routine about these calls,\u201d Broward Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony said in a statement Thursday. \u201cEvery report of a threat is thoroughly investigated and may lead to an arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy was arrested after he allegedly triggered a lockdown at a Broward school by reporting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-253066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253066","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=253066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}