SEE IT: Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts boy’s mugshot to social media [Video]

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From the Associated Press: A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he’s posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.

Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes recently, including in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that killed two students and two teachers.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts Monday, Chitwood warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making these threats, he’ll make sure the public knows.

On Friday, Sept. 13, a fed-up Sheriff Chitwood posted a video informing parents that they better get their kids under control or he’s going to do it for them.

“This is absolutely out of control and it ends now!” Chitwood declared. “Parents, do your job… go talk to the families who have lost a loved one in a school shooting. These little knuckleheads think it’s funny. Go talk to those parents and see how funny it is.”

Chitwood vowed to come after the parents as well as the students making the bogus school shooting tips, and said one set of parents is already going to be hit with a $11,000 bill each, “because somebody’s paying this bill!”

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The Volusia Sheriff’s Office announced on Facebook on Friday:

Last night and early this morning, two Heritage Middle School students (ages 13 and 14) were arrested for posting threats on TikTok and Instagram to commit a school shooting. Both students are charged with making written threats to kill, which is a felony.

Students should be aware that all threats are taken seriously by law enforcement, and threats from “anonymous” accounts can be traced, even if the post and the account itself are deleted.

The Sheriff’s Office will pursue criminal charges to the full extent of the law in every case possible. Threats meant as “jokes” are no exception.

Monday morning, Chitwood posted the mugshot, along with the following announcement:

As promised. We just arrested a Creekside Middle School student who made threats to commit a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands Middle School. He had written a list of names and targets. He says it was all a joke.

At the house @VolusiaSheriff deputies recovered airsoft guns, fake ammunition, knives, swords and other weapons he was showing off to other students on video. For his actions, Carlo “Kingston” Dorelli (age 11) is charged with a felony (making a written threat of a mass shooting)

P.S. I can and will release the names and photos of juveniles who are committing these felonies, threatening our students, disrupting our schools and consuming law enforcement resources. You can expect video coming up next.

“Since parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them,” Chitwood says in the following video. “Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I can do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to.”

He then included footage of the handcuffed 11-year-old boy being “perp-walked” and locked in a jail cell.

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