MFHS student arrested on threat charges
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BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH
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A Marble Falls High School student was arrested on felony charges after allegedly threatening to stab his teacher and burn down the school.
Preston Harlow, 17, of Granite Shoals was arrested on Thursday, May 12 on charge terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.
In the arrest affidavit, Marble Falls Police School Resource Officer Tim Mcintyre reported that the boy's mother had come to school officials to report that her son had twice threatened a teacher at the school.
She reported that “on May 10… during a school meeting her son Preston Harlow threatened to slap a teacher,” Mcintyre wrote, and that at home on the next day, he had “threatened to stab to death the same teacher.”
On Thursday, May 12, Harlow was “very disruptive” during class and was suspended. When his mother arrived to take him home, he “continued with his outbursts, used offensive language, and at one time, violently slammed his hand on a table.”
While he was in his mother's car preparing to leave campus, his mother exited her vehicle and told Mcintyre that her son “had just threatened to burn down the school, his words being, 'I'm going to burn the [expletive] school down!'”
The boy's mother told Mcintyre that when her son is angry, “he is capable of doing bad things.”
Harlow was booked in Burnet County Jail on Thursday where he remains as of Monday, May 16 on bond of $5,000.
Marble Falls ISD officials said they could not comment on the student or the incident in question.
“We believe after an investigation on campus, at no time were students or community members at risk in any way during this particular incident,” said Wes Cunningham, Asst. Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction.
Cunningham said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation at the campus.
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