Boy, 11, warned after leaving threatening voicemail at Guelph elementary school

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 11:04 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

An 11-year-old lad successful Guelph has been warned by constabulary aft leaving a threatening voicemail to an simple schoolhouse successful the metropolis past week.

Police were called to Waverley Drive Public School Friday greeting aft unit reported the menace near connected the voicemail overnight. Students and unit were moved to different adjacent schoolhouse for the day.

The canine portion from the Waterloo Regional Police Service helped hunt the schoolhouse and Guelph constabulary said successful the aboriginal day that thing suspicious had been found.

Officers investigated and recovered the telephone came from a telephone belonging to a teenager. The teen told constabulary his household had been visiting friends the erstwhile evening.

"While the teen was playing video games, helium heard an 11-year-old lad leaving the connection from the teen's phone. The kid past asked if it was imaginable to retrieve and delete the voicemail," constabulary said successful a merchandise Monday morning.

"Officers spoke to the kid and his parent to explicate the seriousness of his actions. Due to his property nary charges volition beryllium laid."

The telephone came little than a period aft a weaponry menace was made against John F. Ross Secondary School successful Guelph, shutting the schoolhouse down for the day.

In that case, a 14-year-old from Guelph has been charged with nationalist mischief and 2 counts of uttering threats.