TOMS RIVER – A local woman has been charged after making threats to Toms River High School North staff while picking her child up from school Tuesday, police said.
According to Toms River Police Chief Peter Sundack, the 47-year-old woman became angry when she arrived to pick the student up because she was displeased with what she was told.
Police did not reveal the woman’s identity or disclose the reason she was asked to pick her child up, the Patch reported.
The mother began yelling threatening comments in front of students and staff while she and the student left school, police said. Due to the threats, Toms River North administrators began a shelter in place.
Authorities then searched for the mother who was later found in Jackson Township and was ultimately arrested.
The woman was charged with second-degree counts of causing a false public alarm and terroristic threats. Afterwards, the shelter on place was lifted and students resumed their normal schedule and dismissal, Sundack said.
Staff, students and families were notified by the district through the Parent Square around 1 p.m., stating the shelter-in-place was ordered “as a precautionary action in response to an external matter.”
A follow up message was later sent stating the shelter-in-place had been lifted and police had “resolved the external concern.”
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