Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass taking pictures, police say

A fifth grade pupil in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass shooting, authorities stated.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary school.

It said its local college threat enforcement staff was instantly notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's workplace stated.

In video shared by authorities, the boy could be seen being led right into a police automobile.

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the risk came simply days after the deadly school capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two lecturers dead.

“Right now just isn't the time to behave like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This little one made a fake risk, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno mentioned his crew “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to investigate the incident.

The comment came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 school taking pictures after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately moving in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking information editor for NBC News Digital based in London.