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Evansville Police Department
Sunday January 7th, 2018 :: 10:29 p.m. CST

Advisory

EPD contacted after hoax social media post from Virginia is sent to local student. VA police have made an arrest.

Evansville Police were contacted Sunday evening about a threatening social media post received by a local student.
The post included a picture of multiple guns and warned students of @mhs not to go to school.
Evansville Police were able to determine the picture was part of an investigation in Albemarle County VIrginia.
According to the Virginia CBS affiliate, wtvr.com, a juvenile suspect has been detained in the case. The post was directed at a school in Virginia, not Evansville.
There is no local connection to the Virginia investigation.

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Evansville Police Department
15 Northwest Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47708

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