Woodstock High School student arrested for allegedly writing threat on bathroom wall

A Woodstock High School student was arrested Monday afternoon on a felony disorderly conduct charge for allegedly writing a threat involving gun violence on a school bathroom stall last week.

The arrests comes the week after a Woodstock North High School student was arrested after, Superintendent Mike Moan said in a letter to families, bringing a look-alike weapon to school and a 15-year-old Marengo High School student was charged in connection with a threat made on social media.

The student arrested Monday has not attended school since Tuesday last week, the District 200 administration said in a letter to parents Monday. The threat was discovered Dec. 6 and implied the use of a firearm, Woodstock police said in a news release.

The student “now faces the most extreme school disciplinary action possible, including expulsion from school,” Woodstock High School Principal Art Vallicelli said in the letter. “Keeping our students safe is a primary goal at Woodstock High School and a goal we share with our students and families. Please be assured that we work constantly with Woodstock police, including our two full-time school resource officers at each high school, to achieve that goal.”

Woodstock Police Chief John Lieb said district administrators and the Woodstock Police Department’s Detectives and School Resource Officers reviewed “an extraordinary amount of information to ensure a thorough and accurate investigation occurred.”

“I am extremely impressed with how the D200 Administration and the WPD Investigations Division took this issue extremely seriously; their efforts made it clear to me that student safety is truly a top priority,” Lieb said in a statement.

No Woodstock students remained in the custody of Woodstock police or at the Kane County Juvenile Detention Center Monday, Lieb told the Northwest Herald. The student arrested Monday over the Woodstock High School threat scrawled in the bathroom was released to a parent, Woodstock police said.

Lieb declined again Monday to say what charges, if any, have been filed against the Woodstock North student arrested last week as the investigation is ongoing. He said he expects a delay in further information in that case as the department awaits information from at least one social media platform.

Extra police presence was added to the Woodstock High School grounds while the incident was being investigated, police said.