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Lohud: The Croton school district received a tip on Wednesday afternoon through its anonymous alerts portal, and Croton-on-Hudson police arrested the teenager, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office said in a statement today. The teen, whose name was not released, was arraigned on Thursday in Croton-on-Hudson Village Court and charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony. MORE AT https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/06/teen-arrested-accused-threatening-croton-harmon-high-school/2231200001/
AND FROM THE PATCH https://patch.com/new-york/ossining/arrest-over-threat-croton-harmon-high-school
What exactly is a "terroristic threat"?
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DeleteHere is the legal definition of "terroristic threat".
ReplyDelete"terroristic threat" is a crime generally involving a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience. It may mean an offense against property or involving danger to another person that may include but is not limited to recklessly endangering another person, harassment, stalking, ethnic intimidation, and criminal mischief.
The following is an example of a Texas statute dealing with terroristic threats:
TERRORISTIC THREAT
(a) A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to:
cause a reaction of any type to his threat[s] by an official or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;
place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury;
prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a building; room; place of assembly; place to which the public has access; place of employment or occupation; aircraft, automobile, or other form of conveyance; or other public place;
cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public service;
place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear of serious bodily injury; or
influence the conduct or activities of a branch or agency of the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.
https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terroristic-threat/
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