15-year-old Threatened Yorktown High School, Police Say

A Yorktown boy whose name is being withheld by police faces a juvenile delinquency charge in connection with a threat made on the social media app Yik Yak.

If the kid were an adult, the charge would have been making a terrorist threat, a felony, police said.

The post talked about bullying and made an unspecific statement that “the school will explode,” police said. It was made on an ap that allows anonymous posts that can only be seen by users within a 1.5 mile radius.

Police were able to ID the suspect through the GPS tracking associated with the app.

The 15-year-old was arrested at 6 p.m. Sept. 16. After processing he was released to a parent; he is due in Westchester Family Court Sept. 18.

The police report did not contain information about the alleged bullying.