LaGrange police are not clowning around.
Lt. Dale Strickland told
WXIA police arrested four teens on Friday for creating a fake Facebook page, where they
made threats to dress like a creepy clown and abduct children with a white van. Last week, police allege, the teens made the threats against students at Callaway Elementary, Franklin Forest Elementary, Callaway Middle School, Troup High School and Callaway High School.
Police charged Steven Goddard Jr., 18, Zaria Dallas, 18, and Tristian Bonner, 17, with making terroristic threats. Goddard and Dallas are from Georgia, while Bonner is from Alabama. Police charged an unnamed 16-year-old with both
making terroristic threats and disrupting public schools, according to the news site.
"We have received numerous Facebook messages about the possible criminal activity involving individuals dressed as clowns. On Monday, September 12, 2016, LaGrange Police began an investigation into threats made by several individuals via Facebook
to commit violent crimes at three different schools in LaGrange," the department posted to its
Facebook page.
"The suspects indicated that they would be dressed as 'creepy clowns' and would be driving a white van. After the posts were made and shared thousands of times
officers with the department responded to numerous calls of 'creepy clowns' driving in different areas of the city. There were no individuals located and several of the calls were believed to be false," it continued.
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