High School Student Emailed Death Threat to Teacher, Say Police

Anne Arundel County police last week arrested a student who attends a high school on the grounds of Fort Meade after the student allegedly emailed a death threat to a teacher.

The unidentified student has been charged as a juvenile with disrupting school activities, the police said. They did not release the student’s name, age, gender or place of residence.

Police detectives tracked down the student with the help of officials at Fort Meade Senior High School and the department’s Digital Forensics Lab and School Resource Unit, according to a police report.

Officers responded Thursday morning to the high school, at 1100 Clark Road at Fort Meade, to investigate the report of a threat against a teacher. The unidentified teacher told police that on Monday, the teacher received two emails “that illustrated the teacher’s death,” the police report stated. The emails were sent through the Anne Arundel schools’ email system.

The police and school officials reviewed electronic records and determined that the suspect attended Meade Senior High School. They located the student, who confessed to creating and sending the emails to the teacher, according to the police report.

The investigation is continuing, the police said, and anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Detective Frank Bilbrey at 410-222-6155.