In connection with separate online threats made against two high schools in Mississauga and Brampton on Thursday morning, two teens have been accused.
In order to look into an internet threat, Peel Regional Police claimed they went to Lincoln M. Alexander High School on Morning Star Drive at around 8:45 a.m.
Soon after, according to Const. Heather Cannon, detectives located a suspect and detained a 16-year-old girl. The girl is accused with making a threat on one count.After receiving a further internet threat, police were summoned to Chinguacousy Secondary School on Williams Parkway East at around 10 a.m.
According to Cannon, an inquiry led to the fast identification and detention of a suspect, a 14-year-old child.
He is accused of making threats on one count.
The two defendants, who cannot be identified in accordance with the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were later released on bail and will next appear in court.
When asked if the threats from Thursday were related, Cannon replied that there was no evidence to support it.
She asserted that there would have been many more charges if it had been a coordinated effort.Students and staff at Chinguacousy Secondary School were already on high alert before to Thursday’s threat because it was one of the six high schools in the area that received a threat on social media on March 2.
The other schools are Ascension of Our Lord Secondary School, Louise Arbour Secondary School, Holy Name of Mary Secondary School, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, and Notre Dame Secondary School.
The anonymous tweet, according to police, suggested someone planned to “shoot up” the schools on March 10.
Despite the two arrests, Cannon stated that police are still looking into the threats from the previous week and will be more present on Friday near the seven schools, including Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School.”We are still moving forward with the school boards as far as attending (the schools). There’s going to be a visible police presence at the schools tomorrow. So if people are showing up, we’ll be there in the mornings and throughout the day,” Cannon said.
“Investigations like this, we take them extremely seriously. And we know this is very distressing to students, staff, school boards, people, the community in general, and understanding that we are working to investigate this matter.”
