{"id":74146,"date":"2025-12-30T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:47:07","slug":"threat-to-bomb-lackawanna-county-school-prompts-charge-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74146\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat to bomb Lackawanna County school prompts charge, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Olyphant man sent a message to a group on Snapchat that he wanted to bomb a school<\/p>\n<p>THROOP, Pa. \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening to bomb Abington Heights School District.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Justin McCauley, 20, of Olyphant, sent a Snapchat message to a group Monday saying that he wanted to bomb the school, said Throop police.<\/p>\n<p>When a group member asked, &#8220;why&#8221; McCauley said he needed to move on and &#8220;the only way to move on is to murder them in mass numbers,&#8221; according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>McCauley is charged with terroristic threats and harassment. Bail and preliminary hearing information was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Olyphant man sent a message to a group on Snapchat that he wanted to bomb a school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-74146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}