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Former Student Convicted In Dark Web Threats Targeting Rohnert Park School

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Dissent

CBS reports:

A former Rancho Cotate High School student has been convicted in a plot involving a dark web criminal who was paid to email threats targeting the school and its students, authorities said Tuesday.Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officials did not name the student because he was a minor at the time of the threats.

Authorities said the case began on Feb. 27, 2017 when school officials received a bomb threat by phone at 5:45 p.m.

Read more on CBS San Francisco.

Link to CBS corrected post-publication.

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