Police in Menifee arrested a 17-year-old Heritage Excessive College scholar after they stated he despatched threatening messages to different college students and located him with what's believed to be a “ghost gun.”
The scholar was arrested early on Saturday as he was returning to his dwelling, police stated in a press release. Once they searched the teenager, officers discovered a pair of brass knuckles and the gun on him.
Police went to the coed’s dwelling after they acquired a name earlier that morning in regards to the threatening messages, which he allegedly despatched via social media.
The messages didn't particularly goal Heritage Excessive or different college students, however had been apparently threatening sufficient that others who noticed them on social media referred to as police.
The scholar was not publicly recognized. Police stated he didn't seem to have a earlier prison document. He was booked in Riverside County Juvenile Corridor.
He has not been charged but, however might face expenses for prison threats and possessing the brass knuckles and the unregistered gun.
Captain Dave Gutierrez stated the handgun didn't have a serial quantity on it that may make it traceable by police, which is what earned the weapons the “ghost weapons” moniker.
The gun appeared to have been constructed out of a equipment. Such kits can be found on-line and permit anybody to construct a gun from items purchased individually.
California legislation enforcement leaders have turn out to be more and more involved about weapons constructed on this manner which are showing extra continuously at crime scenes and within the palms of people that shouldn’t have them.
It’s not clear how the 17-year-old acquired the gun.
“At this level we don’t know whether or not or not he purchased the stuff (to assemble the gun) or not,” Gutierrez stated.
There was no info Sunday about when the coed would seem in court docket.