PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — A 14-year-old Interlachen student was arrested Wednesday for typing "I have a gun" into Google Translate while at school, officials announced.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said staff at the Interlachen Junior-Senior High School received a tip from an app that detects possible threats of violence on school-issued computers.
According to a statement by the sheriff's office, the app Linewize picked up a student's keystrokes on his school computer where he typed "I have a gun" into Google translate from English to Spanish. The sheriff's office said the student attempted to blame a Spanish-speaking student for the message, "but another student came forward to say the Spanish-speaking student did not use [his] computer."
The Spanish-speaking student told deputies that earlier in class the student asked him to translate the same wording in person, but he refused, the report says.
The teen was removed from class by administrators. The report noted he did not have a gun in his possession.
The child was arrested an charged with false report of a weapon of mass destruction, a second-degree felony.
