Twitter Threats Get Stow Student in Trouble with Police

A Stow-Munroe Falls High School student is in trouble with the law thanks in part to his Twitter account.

School administrators called Stow Police after discovering a student had tweeted "threatening and berating comments" about a high school teacher, according to a police report.

The student, who is an adult but whose identity is not being published at this time by Stow Patch, was charged with one count of telecommunications harassment, a first-degree misdemeanor.

The severity of the threats, and whether disciplinary action has been taken, is unclear, as Stow-Munroe Falls Schools Superintendent Russell Jones did not respond to a request for comment.

The threatening tweets were apparently sent on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, last month, according to police.

This would not be the first time a student's statements on their Twitter account landed them in hot water in the region.

In August a student at Kent State University was suspended after he posted on Twitter threats that he planned to open fire on the campus.