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Manitoba Teen in Alleged School Plot Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Murder

The case grew from an international tip about an alleged online plan spanning two provinces.

Overview

  • RCMP rearrested the 14-year-old at the Manitoba Youth Centre on Wednesday and laid counts of conspiracy to commit murder, counselling murder and two uttering-threats charges.
  • Police allege he and a 15-year-old in Bridgewater, N.S., discussed coordinated attacks on Rivers Collegiate and Park View Education Centre in online chats flagged to Canadian police by Interpol and the FBI.
  • The Rivers youth was first taken into custody March 16 on a bus to school, which RCMP said was the safest way to detain him before he reached campus.
  • Investigators searched two properties tied to the teen and seized electronic devices and two firearms that RCMP say belong to a relative.
  • He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in Brandon court on June 4, while the Nova Scotia youth also faces conspiracy and uttering-threats charges.