Teen charged after cyber threats targeting Rio Claro East Secondary

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with sev­er­al counts of ha­rass­ment fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to cy­ber-re­lat­ed threats made against stu­dents and staff of Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School be­tween No­vem­ber 2025 and Feb­ru­ary 2026.

Po­lice said the charges stem from re­ports of bomb threats and threat­en­ing mes­sages sent through SMS and Tik­Tok ac­counts op­er­at­ing un­der sev­er­al alias­es.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion car­ried out ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions with sup­port from the Cy­ber and So­cial Me­dia Unit (CSMU).

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said sev­er­al elec­tron­ic de­vices were seized from the teenag­er’s home af­ter war­rants were ob­tained un­der the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act.

Po­lice al­so said the CSMU traced sev­er­al IP ad­dress­es linked to the Tik­Tok ac­counts used in the mat­ter.

The threat­en­ing mes­sages re­port­ed­ly con­tained ref­er­ences to shoot­ings, ex­plo­sives, death threats and tar­get­ed at­tacks against stu­dents and mem­bers of staff. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the ma­te­r­i­al was sub­ject­ed to de­tailed analy­sis as part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The charges were laid fol­low­ing le­gal ad­vice from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Ms Bho­la on Fri­day.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tions were led by W/Cpl Far­ri­er of the East­ern Di­vi­sion.