Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, police say

A fifth grade student in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a textual content message threatening to hold out a mass capturing, authorities stated.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary school.

It said its native school menace enforcement workforce was immediately notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written menace to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

In video shared by authorities, the boy can be seen being led into a police vehicle.

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a statement, noting that the threat came just days after the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two teachers useless.

“Proper now is just not the time to behave like a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This little one made a pretend threat, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno stated his crew “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

The comment came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 faculty shooting after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking information editor for NBC Information Digital based in London.