Riverside police have arrested three students who attend local schools for allegedly making threats of violence via social media against fellow students and school staff members.
On Wednesday the Riverside Police School Resource officer assigned to Ramona High School arrested a 15-year-old female student, police said. Authorities also arrested a 13-year-old female student from Chemawa Middle School on Tuesday and a 15-year-old male student from Arlington High School on Sept. 10.
In the Ramona High School case, a student allegedly shared a photo of firearms and made statements suggesting violence against her classmates in an Instagram group comprised of other female students, police said. The photo was originally from a previous social media post that threatened school violence in another state.
The teen was arrested and booked into a Riverside County juvenile facility for criminal threats, police said. A search of her home determined she did not have access to guns.
The public should report social media or internet content threatening violence toward a specific school or individual to the Riverside Public Safety Communications Center nonemergency line, 951-354-2007. Nonspecific school threats in Riverside should be reported to the police department’s Atlas 1 mobile app utilizing the “Send a Message” feature.