Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, police say

A fifth grade student in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass capturing, authorities stated.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace said it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a pupil at an elementary school.

It said its native college menace enforcement staff was immediately notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office said.

In video shared by authorities, the boy could be seen being led into a police car.

“This pupil’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a statement, noting that the risk got here just days after the lethal school capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two teachers useless.

“Right now is just not the time to act like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he stated. “This child made a fake risk, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno stated his team “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to investigate the incident.

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 faculty shooting after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of instantly moving in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking information editor for NBC News Digital based in London.