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06-15-2005, 01:46 PM
Teen Found Guilty Of Making Online Threats Against Mich. School
POSTED: 11:04 am EDT June 15, 2005
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. -- A Michigan teenager has been found guilty of posting threats in an Internet chat room -- threats that indicated he was planning a Columbine-style massacre at his high school near Detroit.
Andrew Osantowski
Andrew Osantowski, 17, has been convicted of two counts of threatening kids at Chippewa Valley High School. Each charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Police reportedly learned of Osantowski's plan from a teenage girl and her father who live in Washington state. The girl was chatting with Osantowski online when she notified her father of the increasingly disturbing content, reported WDIV-TV in Detroit. The father then alerted police in Michigan.
Osantowski allegedly said in one of the chats, "On judgment day, I'll probably kill my family, my three cats, then off to school."
Law enforcement officials said the case appears to be among the first in the nation in which antiterrorism laws are being applied to school violence.
The defendant will be sentenced next month.
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POSTED: 11:04 am EDT June 15, 2005
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. -- A Michigan teenager has been found guilty of posting threats in an Internet chat room -- threats that indicated he was planning a Columbine-style massacre at his high school near Detroit.
Andrew Osantowski
Andrew Osantowski, 17, has been convicted of two counts of threatening kids at Chippewa Valley High School. Each charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Police reportedly learned of Osantowski's plan from a teenage girl and her father who live in Washington state. The girl was chatting with Osantowski online when she notified her father of the increasingly disturbing content, reported WDIV-TV in Detroit. The father then alerted police in Michigan.
Osantowski allegedly said in one of the chats, "On judgment day, I'll probably kill my family, my three cats, then off to school."
Law enforcement officials said the case appears to be among the first in the nation in which antiterrorism laws are being applied to school violence.
The defendant will be sentenced next month.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0614/4608464_200X150.jpg