Tucson Police have arrested two Flowing Wells High School students for impersonating one student, and threatening five others, as well as making threats to harm teachers and “shoot up” Flowing Wells.
According to Tucson Police, Charles Schaming, 17, and Guillermo Acorn, 16, used the Facebook photo of a student from another school to create a false Facebook profile with which they threatened and harassed other Flowing Wells students.
Detectives were able to track down the offenders by tracing the IP address of the profile that had posted threats on the profile pages of five students.
Schaming and Acorn have each been charged with two felony charges, including one count of interference with an educational institution, and one count of identity theft; Schaming, however, faces 24 misdemeanor counts, while Acorn faces eight, as Acorn wasn’t involved in making threats against each student that was victimized.
Really, these idiots should be thanking their lucky stars that they did this now, rather than if/when Michelle Ugenti’s H.B. 2004 becomes law. That would have stacked the charges even higher against these kids who apparently didn’t realize that Facebook is for secretly following crushes and shameless self-promotion, not threats.
This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2013.
And then there’s the tidal wave of vile comments, many of which seem to be “technically prejudicial” (whatever that’s supposed to mean, you dumb police media departments), and hate crimes, smugly and stupidly allowed by TPD and many other lazy yet media-frenzied urban police departments at their Facebook pages. City and county attorneys, defense attorneys, et al, take note…
Sometimes I think people need the perverbial 2×4 up side the head. I just don’t get it. I really don’t. I grew up in the 70s in rural CT. Students would drive to school during hunting season w/rifles on gun racks in their trucks, left unlocked. Wore buck knives on their belts. Ever a problem? Never. Never, never, never! Worst problem we had was spitting “chew” in the water fountains and growing pot in the greenhouse. Vietnam was in full swing, protests abound….never, never, never an incident. What’s happened? UGH! I just don’t get it. Oh…and why haven’t these young men (not kids), been charged as adults?
These two boys are special education students, not idiots. The author of this article is no journalist. Before making such comments, maybe he should get the details. Reporters should be reprting facts only…NOT opinion.
This is a LOAD of BULLSHIT! You idiots believe everything the media says and what this stupid wannabe reporter says when all of his points are false. They didn’t threaten to “shoot up” the school, they only threatened a few students… That is all. This is fucking bullshit!