College Student Blogger Arrested For On-line Threat On College Blog

Blogger Threatens LA Campus Shooting is a December 9, 2007 Associated Press article which reports on a college student blogger who threatened to shoot people at Loyola Marymount University. The student made this threat on a blog called juicycampus which is frequented by college students. As the article states:

Los Angeles police arrested a 21-year-old Loyola Marymount University student in connection with an online threat to shoot people on campus, officials said Saturday.

Police arrested Carlos Huerta, a senior at Loyola, for investigation of making criminal threats. Huerta was taken into custody on Saturday night near his apartment on campus.

Huerta is suspected of posting a message that he would shoot and kill as many people as possible on campus before being killed himself by police, authorities said. The anonymous threat appeared on a blog called Juicycampus.com, used primarily by college students.

If true, this college student appears to be a copycat that we see so often in criminal law.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein