Teen Charged After Facebook Threats

Police says California youth created false account to issue them
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 22, 2011 2:27 PM CDT
Long Beach Student Charged With Threatening Classmates on False Facebook Account
The Facebook logo.   (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file)

A California teenager is in hot water after police say he created a fake Facebook account and used it to threaten classmates, reports the Los Angeles Times. The 17-year-old at Millikan High School in Long Beach faces charges of making criminal threats and obstruction of justice. “Posting a threat online is no different than making a threat face-to-face,” said a police sergeant. The teen has been released to the custody of his parents and stripped of his computer. Police described the threats only as "pretty graphic." (More Facebook stories.)

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