Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A 17-year-old Bensalem girl was arrested by Tullytown police Wednesday morning after she allegedly posted a shooting threat on social media.
The teen wrote the threat about shooting up the Center for Student Learning Charter School on Lakeside Drive and tweeted it to her followers, borough Chief Daniel Doyle said.
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Falls Township police received intelligence about the tweet Wednesday morning and alerted Tullytown officers.
Doyle said his department rushed to the school, which was placed on a lockdown, around 11 a.m. Officers pulled the teen from her class after a staff member identified her based on her Twitter profile photo.
The teen and her mother were interviewed. The girl admitted to posting the threat and was charged as a juvenile with terroristic threats, the chief said.
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Doyle told LevittownNow.com it appeared the teen used a school laptop during class to access the Twitter account.
