Johnna Rhône during her video arraignment.A 59-year-old art teacher faces criminal charges in Michigan, where authorities allege she placed threatening, hand-written notes in three different middle school classrooms.Investigators say surveillance cameras caught Johnna Rhône slipping the disturbing notes under the doors of the three classrooms at Jefferson Middle School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., according to a statement from Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido.Rhône is a teacher at the school.She has been charged with making a terrorist threat or false report of terrorism.Rhône was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty. Her lawyer, Andrew Leone,spoke to WJBK, and said she denies any involvement.Rhône has been placed on house arrest, PEOPLE confirms.Johnna Rhône during her video arraignment.During a press conference Monday, Lucido read one of the three notes aloud: “‘Start break early. He’s going to do it. Just don’t be in the hall after lunch. Boom. Get it?'“Afterwards, Lucido said he’d expect “something like this from a child, not an adult.“The allegations comeweeks after a shooting at Oxford High Schoolleft four students dead and seven other people wounded.In recent weeks, there has been a rise in threats to schools nationwide.A number of schools across the country are taking extra precautions to protect their students in the wake ofa disturbing TikTok threat.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.The threat — referred to as National Shoot Up Your School Day — had urged students to commit acts of violence on Dec. 17.No specific school or district was mentioned in the TikTok threat.According to Lucido, his office will take a “zero tolerance” approach when it comes to threats.“We promise to prosecute every one of these threats,” Lucido said. “That’s the only way you can get the message across. There will not be a walk. There will not be leniency.”
Johnna Rhône during her video arraignment.
A 59-year-old art teacher faces criminal charges in Michigan, where authorities allege she placed threatening, hand-written notes in three different middle school classrooms.Investigators say surveillance cameras caught Johnna Rhône slipping the disturbing notes under the doors of the three classrooms at Jefferson Middle School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., according to a statement from Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido.Rhône is a teacher at the school.She has been charged with making a terrorist threat or false report of terrorism.Rhône was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty. Her lawyer, Andrew Leone,spoke to WJBK, and said she denies any involvement.Rhône has been placed on house arrest, PEOPLE confirms.Johnna Rhône during her video arraignment.During a press conference Monday, Lucido read one of the three notes aloud: “‘Start break early. He’s going to do it. Just don’t be in the hall after lunch. Boom. Get it?'“Afterwards, Lucido said he’d expect “something like this from a child, not an adult.“The allegations comeweeks after a shooting at Oxford High Schoolleft four students dead and seven other people wounded.In recent weeks, there has been a rise in threats to schools nationwide.A number of schools across the country are taking extra precautions to protect their students in the wake ofa disturbing TikTok threat.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.The threat — referred to as National Shoot Up Your School Day — had urged students to commit acts of violence on Dec. 17.No specific school or district was mentioned in the TikTok threat.According to Lucido, his office will take a “zero tolerance” approach when it comes to threats.“We promise to prosecute every one of these threats,” Lucido said. “That’s the only way you can get the message across. There will not be a walk. There will not be leniency.”
A 59-year-old art teacher faces criminal charges in Michigan, where authorities allege she placed threatening, hand-written notes in three different middle school classrooms.
Investigators say surveillance cameras caught Johnna Rhône slipping the disturbing notes under the doors of the three classrooms at Jefferson Middle School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., according to a statement from Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido.
Rhône is a teacher at the school.
She has been charged with making a terrorist threat or false report of terrorism.
Rhône was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty. Her lawyer, Andrew Leone,spoke to WJBK, and said she denies any involvement.
Rhône has been placed on house arrest, PEOPLE confirms.
During a press conference Monday, Lucido read one of the three notes aloud: “‘Start break early. He’s going to do it. Just don’t be in the hall after lunch. Boom. Get it?'”
Afterwards, Lucido said he’d expect “something like this from a child, not an adult.”
The allegations comeweeks after a shooting at Oxford High Schoolleft four students dead and seven other people wounded.
In recent weeks, there has been a rise in threats to schools nationwide.
A number of schools across the country are taking extra precautions to protect their students in the wake ofa disturbing TikTok threat.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
The threat — referred to as National Shoot Up Your School Day — had urged students to commit acts of violence on Dec. 17.
No specific school or district was mentioned in the TikTok threat.
According to Lucido, his office will take a “zero tolerance” approach when it comes to threats.
“We promise to prosecute every one of these threats,” Lucido said. “That’s the only way you can get the message across. There will not be a walk. There will not be leniency.”
source: people.com
