Rivers teen faces more charges for alleged plot to attack his school
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RCMP have laid more charges against a Rivers teen accused of plotting an attack at his school.
The 14-year-old boy is now charged with conspiracy to commit murder, counselling the offence of murder and two counts of uttering threats, RCMP said in a news release on Thursday.
RCMP re-arrested the teen at the Manitoba Youth Centre on Wednesday.
The boy was initially arrested on a school bus and charged with uttering threats on March 16, after Interpol and the FBI alerted police in Canada to a conversation between two teens who were allegedly planning simultaneous attacks on their respective schools in Rivers and Bridgewater, N.S.
Mounties said the conversation began in late February, and the Rivers youth was “actively discussing and planning to harm other students” at Rivers Collegiate, a Grade 7 to 12 school roughly 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon.
The school’s website says it has around 140 students.
RCMP seized the boy’s phone and electronic devices, and a subsequent search of two properties connected to the youth resulted in police seizing more electronic devices and other items, including two firearms that a relative owned, police said in Thursday’s release.
The teen is scheduled to apply for bail in Brandon provincial court on June 4.
Police in Nova Scotia arrested a 15-year-old girl on March 16 as well, and she faces several charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and uttering threats.
Bridgewater police said they seized handwritten plans, imitation weapons, a roughly made imitation pipe bomb and assault rifle, and clothing with hate symbols from the 15-year-old’s home.
Neither of the teens can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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