A 15 year old boy alleged to have taken a meat cleaver into the grounds of Otumoetai Intermediate on Tuesday is to appear before a Judge today.
The boy is alleged to have threatened students at the school yesterday, triggering a lockdown until he was arrested.
Otumoetai Intermediate.
'The threats seem to have been more of a general nature,” says Tauranga senior sergeant Ross Bielby.
The 15 year old is charged with possessing a knife and breaching his bail. He is on a 24 hour curfew and not permitted to leave his residence without an escort.
The incident happened at lunchtime, Tuesday. School pupils were kept in their classrooms until after his arrest. The arrest was by uniformed police says Ross. It was not an armed offenders incident.
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i was in the school
Posted on 25-11-2009 17:20 | By 123bee
hi my name is emma im 13 yrs old and i go to otumoetai intermediate. when i herd that there was a lock down i thought that it was a practce as we do practices and when i found out that it was real i was freaked out wondering what was going to happen and if i could go home on time. we had to stay uner the desks fo about30mins . the loudspeaker came on and told us to keep our ears out because hes still in school grounds on the feild. so we done our normal routine and after a wile we got told that the cops had arrested the boy who threatened the school. as i got home i told my sisters the oldest being 21 said that of what they know of this has been the first threat on the school
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