Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass taking pictures, police say

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities mentioned.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

It mentioned its native faculty menace enforcement team was instantly notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace said.

In video shared by authorities, the boy could be seen being led into a police car.

“This scholar’s conduct is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the threat came just days after the lethal school taking pictures at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two lecturers dead.

“Proper now isn't the time to act like a bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This youngster made a faux risk, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno said his workforce “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school taking pictures after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital primarily based in London.