An Arizona teenager who praised the Uvalde, Texas, faculty bloodbath and threatened mass shootings at a highschool, police station and movie show was arrested final weekend, cops mentioned Monday.
Joshua Adam Bowen, 19, was charged Sunday with making terroristic threats and held on $150,000 bond after somebody tipped off authorities to the disturbing feedback he made on-line, the Casa Grande Police Division mentioned in a information launch.
“He threatened household and buddies and praised the latest faculty taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas,” the place a teenage gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle slaughtered 19 kids and two academics, the discharge said.
The FBI allegedly handed on phrase of the posts to police in Casa Grande, a metropolis of 55,000 about an hour south of Phoenix. Police positioned Bowen beneath surveillance and arrested him Sunday, police mentioned.
He didn’t have weapons on him however police mentioned they recognized data that led them to “imagine he might have entry to firearms,” in response to the discharge.
“There isn't any doubt in my thoughts this particular person was intent on hurting individuals and, in the end would have a discovered a option to do it,” Case Grande Police Chief Mark McCrory mentioned in an announcement.
“Thankfully, we now have nice help on the native, state, and nationwide degree to determine these threats and on this occasion these relationships functioned precisely as they need to, and we have been capable of work collectively to cease a critical risk to our neighborhood.”
He urged residents to proceed to report threats to regulation enforcement.
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