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Florida lady impersonated classmate to make threats, police say
A 12-year-old lady is accused of “maliciously” impersonating a fellow pupil by creating faux Instagram and electronic mail accounts to threaten college students and employees at their South Florida constitution college, police mentioned.
The kid then despatched threats to herself and others on the college and “deliberately lied to regulation enforcement” to border a 13-year-old lady, Pembroke Pines police mentioned in a information launch despatched Thursday.
The older lady was arrested after the Nov. 19 threats at Renaissance Constitution Faculty, however has since been exonerated of all fees, police mentioned.
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Prices in opposition to the 12-year-old lady, in the meantime, have been introduced to the Broward State Legal professional’s Workplace, police mentioned.
“Cops confirmed that the precise suspect maliciously impersonated one other pupil, created electronic mail and Instagram accounts to ship herself in addition to different college students threatening messages and deliberately lied to regulation enforcement and faculty employees to border one other individual,” police Capt. Adam Feiner mentioned within the launch.
When the 13-year-old was arrested in November, her mom selected to “train their rights and didn’t cooperate with investigators,” Feiner mentioned, and investigators weren’t capable of study the kid’s digital machine on the time. However in December, the mom shared data that prompted authorities to concern a subpoena for the IP addresses related to the menace, resulting in proof implicating the youthful lady, police mentioned.
Feiner mentioned it’s “inappropriate” to say the 13-year-old was wrongfully arrested, as a result of investigators and prosecutors took motion primarily based on “all of the out there data recognized on the time.”
As soon as that they had extra data, investigators took “instant and swift motion,” charging the youthful lady with crimes together with felony written threats to kill or do bodily hurt, falsifying a police report, disrupting an academic establishment and criminally utilizing private data, police mentioned.
