A Monroe County school student has been charged with threatening to shoot teachers and has been placed in a juvenile detention center.

State police at Fern Ridge said on Friday, Feb. 3, troopers received information that three students had informed the assistant principal of a student making accusations of performing a shooting at the Pleasant Valley High School.

The 14-year-old boy from Saylorsburg made threats that he would shoot one of the high school teachers in the head with a 12-guage shotgun, bringing harm to the same teacher’s infant and also shoot remaining teachers in order to get out of doing school work. Each student who was interviewed provided similar interviews as to what had been stated during class.

The suspect student was interviewed in the presence of his parents and confessed to making the threats during class. The Monroe County district attorney’s office approved criminal charges against the student including terroristic threats and harassment.

The boy was taken into custody and later placed in a juvenile detention center in Bucks County. The investigation is continuing.