A boy who said on the Internet that he planned to bomb his high school was turned in by the 16-year-old daughter of a university police officer who heads a cyber crimes unit, authorities said.
Authorities credited Celia McGinty of Moscow, Idaho, with foiling a plot to bomb Chippewa Valley High School outside Detroit.
Police said a search of 17-year-old Andrew Osantowski’s home last week turned up instructions for making a bomb and videotapes of him with assault weapons. Osantowski was arrested Thursday.
McGinty met Osantowski online in a music chat room three weeks ago. She said Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the youth –who started at the high school Aug. 31–was very specific about how he would take revenge on teachers and schoolmates.
Osantowski has been jailed on more than $1 million bond on 10 felony charges.
