WILMETTE – A 13-year-old faces charges related to numerous threats that were made against local schools in April and June.
The teenager also was charged with abusing his elderly father base on video found on his phone.
The teen faces seven felony counts of disorderly conduct related to false bomb threats, two felony counts of making threats against schools, one felony count abuse of an elderly person and one misdemeanor battery.
Police said the teenager made numerous telephone calls to several Wilmette schools and threatened shootings, bombings and deaths of specific faculty members.
On June 8 the boy made calls that threatened Avoca West School in Glenview and Crow Island School in Winnetka with shootings, police stated. The calls disrupted the operation of the schools and required a police response.
Crow Island school on lockdown June 8.
Police were able to trace the calls to the 13-year-olds mobile phone. Police executed a search warrant and were able to determine that the youth had placed the threatening calls to the schools and also made vulgar and threatening calls to other businesses, stores and institutions, a press release from the Wilmette Police department states.
Police stated that the threats were not credible and the teenager did not have the means to carry them out.
Video on the phone also provided evidence that the youth had committed a domestic battery against his elderly father and abused his elderly father who was in his car.
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