Today's news here in PA - (not my town, thank God!)
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. -- A 14-year-old Montgomery County boy is in police custody, accused of amassing a cache of weapons for a possible attack on a high school.
Authorities said the teenager, who was being home-schooled, felt bullied and had talked about mounting a Columbine-type attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, which he had previously attended. He even tried to recruit another boy to help in the attack, according to District Attorney Bruce Castor.
Castor said at a news conference on Thursday that cooperation between the school district and the police department, "Stopped a potential Columbine-like assault at Plymouth White Marsh High School and perhaps at other locations within Colonial School District."
The 14-year-old was taken into custody after police, acting on an informant's tip, raided his home in Plymouth Township on Wednesday evening.
Prosecutors said police found a 9 mm assault rifle, air guns, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and violence-filled notebooks. However, they found no ammunition for the most dangerous weapon, the assault rifle.
Castor also said that he didn't think an attack was imminent and he's "not certain that an attack was going to occur at all."
"(This) simply could have been big talking by a kid who thought that he was bullied previously and that he was going to exact his revenge," Castor said.
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WTF!
