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

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities said.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a pupil at an elementary school.

It stated its native school threat enforcement staff was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This student’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the menace got here just days after the lethal faculty capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two teachers useless.

“Right now will not be the time to act like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This baby made a faux risk, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno said his crew “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

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

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