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• Video: Parents Turn In Michigan Teen After Threat to High School

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  VIDEO: Parents Turn In Michigan Teen After Threat to High SchoolA Paw Paw, MI, teenager who allegedly planned to attack his high school with guns and possibly Molotov cocktails and homemade bombs was turned in by his parents, and could be tried as an adult.He came to us and said that he’s been really upset and said that he’s been planning to do something bad," the boy's stepfather told 24 Hour News 8 Monday. "It was a big shock."The 15-year-old Paw Paw High School student, who is not
  
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• South Carolina County Considering Using Schools as Police Substations

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  Under a proposal announced by Horry County, SC, school board Chair Joe DeFeo during Monday night's board meeting, police officers could use the county's schools as substations."The police substations is an idea I came up with about four or five years ago," DeFeo said. "The idea was if they needed substations, we have schools. There are rooms in the schools that police could stop by and use as offices."DeFeo would like for any uniformed officers to use schools as office space to file reports. Off
  
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• North Carolina Student Arrested Over Threat Against University

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  A police search warrant lists disturbing items found in the off-campus home of a UNC Charlotte student after he allegedly talked about shooting people.The warrant submitted to a judge by UNC Charlotte police last week says when officers searched Matt Saavedra's apartment they found a campus emergency response guide on his wall opened to the active shooter response and evacuation pages. They also found searches of school shootings on his computer and took away blueprints of campus buildings, WSOC
  
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• Miami Police will Post Counter-Sniper Officers to Watch Over Music Festival

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  As the stages for Ultra Music Festival were being constructed at Bayfront Park, Miami's police chief said Wednesday he is focused on security at and surrounding the event."We have a lot of police officers that are working," Chief Jorge Colina said during a news conference. "We have plain-clothed officers. We have marine patrol in the water, officers on the ground, aviation units." Counter-sniper officers will also be positioned above the festival.Colina said with the recent tragedy at Marjory St
  
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• How Austin Police Ended the Serial Bomber's Terror

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  Embed from Getty ImagesAuthorities tracked down Austin serial bombing suspect Mark Anthony Conditt, 24, using a combination of cell phone triangulation technology, surveillance footage from a FedEx drop-off store, store receipts, and combing through Google searches on the suspect's computer history.Experts also examined the remains of the detonated bombs and discovered the bomber was using "exotic" Asia-made batteries, NBC News reports.All this evidence led law enforcement to the suspect.Au
  
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• Broward Deputy Suspended for Sleeping On Duty Outside Stoneman Douglas High School

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  Embed from Getty ImagesA deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was suspended for sleeping on the job after being caught by a student on Monday evening, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.The student notified a sergeant patrolling the school that Deputy Moises Carotti was asleep in his patrol car, said Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.The sergeant knocked on Carotti’s window to wake him up, she said. Carotti was suspended with p
  
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• All New Jersey Officers Now Subject to Random Drug Testing

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  All police officers in New Jersey are now subject to random drug-testing under a directive from the state's new attorney general.Police departments are also required to implement "early warning systems" triggered by problem behavior such as misconduct accusations, lawsuits, domestic abuse and drunken driving under a separate directive announced by state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's office.Grewal, who was appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy in January, said Tuesday that most police departments
  
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• Accused School Shooter's Brother Arrested on Stoneman Douglas Campus, Prosecutor Warns of Red Flags

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  Zachary Cruz, the brother of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman Nikolas Cruz, is showing the “same flags” exhibited by his brother and should be kept in jail following his arrest for trespassing at the Parkland school, a prosecutor said Tuesday.A magistrate judge agreed, setting an unusually high bond of $500,000 for trespassing on school grounds, a second-degree misdemeanor that typically results in a $25 bond, the Palm Beach Post reports.Zachary Cruz, 18, was arrested
  
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• Bombing Suspect Kills Self as Austin Police Attempt Arrest, Source Tells Local Paper

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  A man whom authorities were attempting to arrest early Wednesday in a string of bombing attacks in Austin killed himself with an explosive device as authorities closed in, a high-ranking law enforcement official told the American-Statesman.The official said authorities identified a suspect in the past 24 hours based largely on information gained after police said the suspect shipped an explosive device from a FedEx store in Sunset Valley, a suburb surrounded by Austin. That evidence included sec
  
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