14-year-old charged with making threat that triggered UV school lockdown

NEW BERLIN – A Unadilla Valley student was charged with making a terror threat on Tuesday after police allegedly received an audio recording of the student making a threat of violence against a school.


Unadilla Valley (UV) Central School District Director of Curriculum and Instruction/Secondary Principal Brenton Taylor said one of their students was charged after two Otselic Valley students turned in a voicemail that contained a threat of violence against a school from the student.


The 14-year-old Unadilla Valley student is charged with making a terror threat, a class D felony, after an investigation by the Town of New Berlin Police Department and the New York State Police Department.


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Taylor said the student who allegedly made the threat was located at Unadilla Valley during the lockdown after the threat was discovered, but a search of the student and their locker revealed no weapons or contraband.


“Otselic Valley Central School District went on a lockout after one of their students reported an audio recording of a threatened act of violence against a school allegedly made by a Unadilla Valley Central School District student,” said Taylor.


He said Otselic Valley representatives warned UV officials of the threat around 11 a.m. and by 11:16 a.m., Unadilla Valley was in a lockdown. He said approximately half an hour later the student who allegedly made the threat had been located, the student's locker was searched, and law enforcement advised that the school was safe.

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