Wrentham teen charged with threatening schoolmates

By Calvin Hennick, Globe Correspondent

A Wrentham teenager is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and threatening to commit a crime after police say he made verbal threats to shoot other students at King Philip Regional High School.

"The only information provided to us was some verbal threats were made," Detective Sergeant William McGrath said. "Obviously, there's an investigation that's continuing."

McGrath said the16-year-old was arrested yesterday and held overnight at a Department of Youth Services facility in New Bedford.

The teen, whose name was not released, was to be arraigned on the charges today in Juvenile Court in Dedham.

McGrath said another 16-year-old boy, who is not a King Philip student, told police that the Wrentham teen had made the threats. Police questioned the Wrentham teen, then took him into custody.

McGrath wouldn't say whether the teenager admitted to making the threats.

Police executed a search warrant yesterday at the teen's home. McGrath wouldn't comment on the results of the search, but he said there was no indication that the teen had access to weapons.

No specific individuals were named in the threats, and no specific date or time of an attack was given, McGrath said. Although the comments were "general," McGrath said, police were forced to take them seriously.

"Don’t fantasize and don't joke, because nothing stated in terms of threats will be treated as jokes," McGrath warned. "We have to act on it at the highest level possible for obvious reasons."

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