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Columbus, GA –

From the Ledger-Enquirer:

A Double Churches Middle School eighth-grader arrested last month for transmitting a false public alarm and two counts of making terroristic threats was sentenced Tuesday to indefinite probation after spending 12 days in the Columbus Youth Detention Center.

On April 24, the 14-year-old boy was arrested at school for threats to blow up the White House and the Columbus Police Department — threats conveyed on his Myspace.com Web page from his home computer. An Internet user in Utah saw the threat and alerted the FBI, which notified the Secret Service and Columbus police.

On April 26, the boy was arrested again, this time for telling another student in the school office the previous day that he was going to bring guns to school. During his April 28 preliminary hearing, the boy disputed the second charge. On Tuesday, he and his attorney, John Martin, didn’t contest the accusations.

The boy was sentenced further to:

• Counseling for him and his family.

• No access to Myspace.com

• All computer use must be monitored by an adult

• An 8 p.m. curfew, except for school and church activities accompanied by an adult

• No sleep-overs at another’s house

• No contact with the victims, including the student to whom he made the guns threat.

He should have added a haircut, in my humble opinion:

Cohn smacked the bench with his hand and asked, “You understand me?”

The boy nodded his Mohawked head and quietly replied, “Yes, sir.”

Note: Staff Writer for the Ledger Mark Rice wrote this article. The Ledger does not leave stories up for an extended period of time and to retrieve them after 7 days, you have to pay $2.75 per article. Therefore, there is no link directly to this article.