Apr 26, 2006 7:24 pm US/Central
Report: Red Lake Student Appears In Court
Duluth, Minn. (AP) ―
A Red Lake High School student being held in connection with recent threats at the school -- where seven people were killed last year -- appeared Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Duluth, Minn., according to a newspaper report.
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis said the nature of the 10-minute, closed-door hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond Erickson was not revealed. The identity of the boy also was not revealed.
Several members of the boy's family attended the hearing, but did not share details afterward. The boy appeared expressionless as authorities led him from the courtroom with his hands cuffed behind his back, the newspaper reported.
A message left with a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office was not immediately returned to The Associated Press Wednesday.
School authorities learned of the threats March 18, after a student told a staff member. Interim principal Brent Colligan sent a letter to students' parents and guardians, saying, "a group of students were threatening to form some sort of assault on the Red Lake high School. ..."
On Tuesday, the FBI confirmed a juvenile was in custody and said in a statement that they believed any alleged threat "has been neutralized."
Extra police officers were added at the school, and security is expected to be heightened until the end of the year.
The threats were seen as a step backward for many on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Reservation in northern Minnesota.
In March 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and grandfather's girlfriend at their home on the reservation, then drove to the high school and killed a security guard, a teacher, and five students before taking his own life.
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