Teenager jailed in school bomb threat

A Walnut Hill teen is facing felony a bomb threat charge after law enforcement was made aware of a video containing the threat to plant a bomb at Northview High School in Century last Thursday.

Gavin Lee Barlow, 19, 3756 S. Pineville Road, was arrested and charged with one felony count of false bomb threat after his cousin, Jonathan Barlow, texted a video of the suspect making the threats to the school's resource officer, according to an Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office report. Jonathan Barlow had received a referral and was being suspended out of school for the rest of the year, the report said.

The school's resource officer received a text containing the video from another officer, William Johnson, who said he was shown the video by an 11th grade student, Jonathan Barlow. Barlow said his cousin, Gavin Barlow, had sent the video to him on Snapchat.

Deputies then contacted the school's principal, Gayle Weaver, about the video, the report said.

The suspect named Weaver in the video, saying, "I hate that (expletive) school, I hate that (expletive), I hate Mrs. Weaver. I wish that (expletive) would blow the (expletive) up at 3:20. (Expletive) I'm gonna set a bomb off in that (expletive). I'm gonna get Russia to blow that (expletive) up," according to the report.

Weaver released students from the school at 3:11, about nine minutes before the regular bell rings, the report stated. This caused students to miss nine minutes of further instruction time, which brought about the charge of disturbing the peace in interfering with school administrative functions, the report said.

When the suspect met law enforcement officers with his mother on Pine Barron Road, he was arrested based on the video evidence and transported to the Escambia County Jail and given a bond of $2,750.