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A Florida sheriff has taken the unusual step of releasing the mugshot and identity of a 10-year-old boy who was arrested for making a school shooting threat. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno defended releasing the boy’s identity by saying that “a child pulling a trigger equals the same aftermath.” Daniel Issac Marquez, 10, was arrested and perp walked on Saturday after sending text messages claiming that he obtained weapons and would shoot up Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral. The child had sent his friend a text with a Googled image of cash, saying “I scammed my friend.” “I bought...

A middle school in Orlando, Fla., was evacuated Monday after a small bomb exploded in the girls' locker room, according to Local 6 News. Investigators said coaches at Memorial Middle School were walking through the girls' locker room and spotted a device that had already exploded. Detectives believe the explosive was thrown though a window and caused a small fire sometime over the weekend or early Monday. It was not determined what type of device was thrown into the building but it was deliberately thrown, according to officials. "The device was thrown through a window and it was possibly an...

Two Norman men face felony charges after allegedly breaking into a tunnel under the University of Oklahoma campus to get into a building on the South Oval. Christopher Thomas Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 20, were charged Thursday in Cleveland County District Court with conspiracy to commit burglary and second-degree burglary. According to an affidavit, a witness saw Boyce and Eldridge entering an underground tunnel system by cutting the locks to a manhole cover in the 1100 block of Asp Avenue. Police said the pair then opened a perimeter door and entered Richards Hall, where they removed a "stoppered...

Additional bomb scares have increased safety measures by Scooby Axson October 19, 2005 After the Oct. 1 explosion outside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and three additional bomb scares on or near university campuses in the following two weeks, OU officials are taking extra safety precautions. OU Department of Public Safety officials said officers will take additional security precautions at Saturday’s game against Baylor University, the first home game since Oct. 1. OU President David L. Boren sent a letter to season ticket holders explaining the stadium’s security measures. “Your safety while on the OU campus will always remain our top priority,”...

By EDWARD HEGSTROM Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle "The FBI is investigating allegations that a Prairie View A&M student arrested last week on charges of trying to pass off counterfeit bills may have also had bomb-making materials in his dorm room." ..."Okwudili Franklin Aluka, 30, faces forgery charges and is being held in the Waller County Jail as officials also try to determine whether he is in the country legally." ..."Court papers filed last week by Prairie View campus police allege officers found chemicals in Aluka's apartment "that can be used in the making of explosives" and they called in the...

STOCKTON -- Students and staff were forced to evacuate San Joaquin Delta College around 6 p.m. Monday after police found a false pipe bomb in a courtyard on campus. Police cordoned off the area and class was canceled for the rest of the evening, said B.R. Brown, the college's spokesman. Stockton Police Department explosives team, assuming it to be real, attempted to destroy the suspected pipe bomb by shooting water at it, said Officer Pete Smith, spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. The suspicious device, which was a PVC pipe with tape on both ends, was found next to a...

MILWAUKIE, Ore. -- Police said a bomb squad blew up two suspicious devices at a high school in North Clackamas County Friday morning, the day after officials decided to close the school due to several bomb threats. A robot was used to destroy the two devices just before 11 a.m., according to deputy Joel Manley with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. “The North Clackamas School District put together a team of searchers and they found a backpack within the school building that was beeping every ten seconds,” Manley said “They also found another device that looks like a pipe bomb...

School Plans, Security Information Gathered by Suspected Iraq Insurgent Focus Concern on Schools in Six States By Brian Ross Oct. 7, 2004 — Schools in six states in particular are being watched closely based on information uncovered by the U.S. military in Baghdad this summer, law enforcement and education officials told ABC News.

<p>BOSTON -- Littleton High School and two elementary schools in the area are under lock-down today after an anonymous threat was made to the high school, according to local media.</p> <p>Officials and parents, who gathered at a local church, say that all students are out of harms way. Police and SWAT teams are on the scene and investigating.</p>