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 shooting, authorities stated.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office mentioned it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a student at an elementary school.

It stated its local school threat enforcement crew was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office said.

In video shared by authorities, the boy might be seen being led right into a police vehicle.

“This scholar’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in an announcement, noting that the menace came simply days after the deadly college taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now will not be the time to behave like a bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he stated. “This youngster made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

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

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

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