Crime & Safety
Student Arrested for Threatening Douglass School on Social Media: LCSO
A juvenile is being held at the Loudoun Juvenile Detention Center after allegedly threatening the Douglass School on the social media.
LEESBURG, VA — A juvenile is being held at the Loudoun County Juvenile Detention Center after allegedly threatening the Douglass School in Leesburg on the social media, according to a Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) announcement.
Deputies say that LCSO learned last week about social media comments posted on October 24 and again on December 7 by a student threatening the Douglass School.
On December 15, the juvenile student involved was charged with two counts of electronically threatening harm to a school, according to the LCSO.
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