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In ‘07 he was charged with threatening to blow up his school
http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1150858065/Danvers-teen-held-after-alleged-bomb-threat-to-school
>>DANVERS - A Danvers High School student is being held on $10,000 cash bail following charges that he repeatedly threatened to blow up the school during a class Wednesday afternoon.
Police said they don’t believe that Gerald Maher, 17, of 195 Maple St., Danvers, has the means to carry out the threat at this point, but were concerned because Maher continued to make the threat even after being warned by a teacher.
It was during a lesson on circuit analysis in Robert Ellis’ classroom when another student accused Maher of throwing a pen at her, according to a police report. When Ellis warned Maher, he and another student began referring to the girl as a “rat.”
During an exchange that followed, Maher allegedly made the threat to blow up the school. Ellis suggested that he might not want to make such threats, given the sensitivity people have to the subject, according to a police report.
But Maher said it two more times, and told his teacher he would not get in trouble because police wouldn’t find any weapons at his home, prompting Ellis to go to school officials.
That afternoon, police questioned Maher, who was at home with his sister.
“It’s stupid,” he allegedly told officers. But then, “He stated that he wasn’t crazy and that he would do it,” according to the report.
Maher then cut off the questioning.
Police got a warrant for Maher’s arrest and went to his home yesterday morning to take him into custody.
School officials said they were concerned because Maher has in the past expressed interest in weaponry and in the military.
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Thanks, I suspected right away that texting while driving was the least of this guys problems.