The Utah pupil part present their assist throughout the first half of an NCAA faculty soccer recreation in opposition to San Diego State and Utah on Sept. 17, in Salt Lake Metropolis. A College of Utah pupil was arrested on suspicion of constructing terrorist threats after police mentioned she threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor if the college’s soccer workforce did not win the sport in opposition to San Diego.
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The Utah pupil part present their assist throughout the first half of an NCAA faculty soccer recreation in opposition to San Diego State and Utah on Sept. 17, in Salt Lake Metropolis. A College of Utah pupil was arrested on suspicion of constructing terrorist threats after police mentioned she threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor if the college’s soccer workforce did not win the sport in opposition to San Diego.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A College of Utah pupil was arrested and charged with making terrorist threats on Wednesday after police mentioned she threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor if the college’s soccer workforce did not win a recreation final Saturday.
Charging paperwork filed in Salt Lake Metropolis on Wednesday allege the 21-year outdated pupil posted threats earlier than Utah’s recreation in opposition to San Diego State College on Saturday, warning that she “was going to detonate the nuclear reactor that’s situated within the College of Utah inflicting a mass destruction.”
The threats have been allegedly posted on YikYak, a social media platform that enables customers to publish anonymously and which rose to prominence on faculty campuses a decade in the past.
In accordance with the charging paperwork, the coed studied engineering and had data of the college’s nuclear reactor.
The College of Utah is amongst greater than two dozen U.S. universities with nuclear engineering packages that use reactors for school and pupil analysis.
The college mentioned in a press release on Thursday that the reactor was secured and campus legislation enforcement had protocols in place to make sure no breaches are made. Officers mentioned the coed, who it didn’t identify, admitted to posting the menace and advised investigators on Wednesday that it was meant as a joke.
“We’ve a zero-tolerance coverage for these sorts of threats,” College of Utah Police Chief Jason Hinojosa mentioned.
Courtroom data didn’t checklist an legal professional representing the coed. A name made to her household’s listed residence cellphone quantity went unanswered on Thursday.
Utah defeated San Diego State in Saturday’s recreation, 35-7.
