Online threat lands Rockford teen in jail
ROCKFORD, Mich. (WZZM) - A Rockford High School student told that he would have to repeat the 11th grade is now charged with making threats against the high school.
"I'm just going to shoot everybody up,'' 17-year-old Jagar Ray Schwartz wrote in Sept. 13 a message to another student that was recovered by police, court records show.
On Monday, the Belmont teen appeared in 63rd District Court where he was ordered to stand trial for making a false report or threat of terrorism. Judge Sara Smolenski also bound him over to circuit court for an Aug. 24 break-in at Grand Rapids E-Liquid store, 5255 Northland Drive NE in which a rock was thrown a window.
Schwartz faces a misdemeanor charge of malicious destruction of property for causing more than $200 in damage at Plainfield Township offices, 6161 Belmont Avenue NE. That incident occurred Sept. 27.