“It was written on top of the picnic table,” said Captain Tim Lentz of the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office when describing where investigators found the latest bomb threat.

Lentz said of the threats, “It disrupts the school, it doesn’t allow the kids to learn and it taxes us in law enforcement agencies here because we respond. We spent all day out there Friday talking to all the kids.”

Five students are now facing terrorizing charges that carry a sentence of up to 15-years in jail.
 
St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Peter Galvin said, “There’s a thin line of separation between fantasy and reality.” Law enforcement leaders said it’s a problem at schools everywhere but numerous threats of violence at area high schools have them concerned, especially about the mental well-being of the teens involved.

According to Galvin, “They are real, it’s just a matter of timing. How many of these children will go on to be diagnosed with a variety of not only personality disorders but genuine mental illness.”
 
Lentz wrapped up by saying, “This is not a joke, absolutely not and as we told them Friday, all the classes, we take this serious and it stops, it stops today.”

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