Long Beach High Student Charged With Making Terroristic Threat

LONG BEACH, NY - A Long Beach High School student was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making a terroristic threat, Nassau Police said.

According to police, the 15-year-old wrote a threat on a classroom desk at the high school “that caused fear to the students and faculty” on Tuesday morning. After an investigation, the teen, who police did not identify, was arrested at the high school. Police did not specify what the threat was.

He will be arraigned on Wednesday at Nassau County Family Court on a felony charge of making a terroristic threat, police said.

Police were already at Long Beach High Tuesday amid heightened security after a note on the surface of a student desk was found Monday describing a future threat to the high school for Tuesday, Long Beach Superintendent David Weiss said in a message on the district’s website. An overnight search of the school was conducted by officers from the Fourth Precinct.

On Tuesday, the district learned of new comments written on a student desk referencing that Tuesday’s threat would take place on Wednesday, Weiss said.

“The police were notified and have informed us that they have made an arrest,” he said. “The district does not tolerate such threats, pranks and rumors. We suggest parents talk to their children about the severity of such behaviors and the potential long-term negative consequences associated with such actions.”