An 18-year-old Lambert High school student faces charges for making threats against the school, according to Forsyth County Sheriff's Corporal Doug Rainwater.
He said deputies arrested Joshua Leonard Zelonka Monday morning without incident after a code yellow lockdown.
"We had a lockdown at Lambert. So, all the kids were safe," Rainwater explained. "The problem that we encounter sometimes is when parents start showing up at the front door trying to get their kids out under lockdown conditions." He pointed out that in situations that require the school to initiate a lockdown, the students are safer when locked in a classroom than they would be walking the halls trying to get to a parent's car.
Rainwater said Zelonka made the threat through Snapchat and he urges people to understand that nothing that gets posted online will ever disappear. "Law enforcement can always use the same technology and we can find this stuff too," Rainwater said. "By giving these companies either a search warrant or a subpoena for whatever social media means that you have used to convey a threat or a crime."
He says investigators confirmed the student did not have access to a weapon and no one was ever in danger.
A judge will set bond for Zelonka's misdemeanor charge of disrupting a public school Tuesday.
