LEWIS STUDENT CHARGES Kentucky Teen Facing Charges After Joking To Ignite Illegal Firecracker In School
Reported by: Associated Press
Web Producer: Tiersa Davis
Reported: Mar. 4, 2013 1:03 PM EST
Updated: Mar. 5, 2013 10:23 AM EST
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Vanceburg
, Lewis County
, Kentucky
Authorities say a northern Kentucky teenager has been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening after allegedly joking about bringing a large firecracker to his school in Lewis County.
Lewis County Deputy Jason Hill told The Ledger Independent that the 17-year-old boy joked last week about bringing an M-80 firecracker to school and throwing it under a table to see what would happen.
Another student overheard the comment and thought the M-80 was a large firearm. The student notified authorities.
Hill says M-80s are illegal to possess.
The deputy says the boy was charged because had he brought the firework to school and ignited it, there would have been a panic and injuries could have occurred.
Hill says the juvenile is being held in the Boyd County Juvenile Detention Center.
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