Oct. 10, 2010: Two 13-year-old students from Schaghticoke Middle School in New Milford, Conn. were arrested for allegedly posting threats against an administrator and the school building on their personal Facebook pages. Both students were suspended and arrested on charges ranging from threatening, disorderly conduct and second-degree breach of peace.

Oct. 2, 2010: David Abitbol, 28, of Montreal, was arrested at his parent’s house after death threats against some of his former classmates were posted on Facebook. Authorities are alleging that they also found five guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at the residence.

Sept. 16, 2010: Feronta Thompson, a 17-year-old from Napoleonville, La., was arrested for making violent threats on Facebook that disrupted Assumption High School’s operations and persuaded some parents to keep their children at home. The 11th-grader at Assumption High School was charged with terrorizing, cyberstalking, hate crime and theft of utility service.

Sept. 9, 2010: A Dallas, Ga. teen was arrested for making threatening statements on Facebook that he would use a firearm against three of his classmates. The 16-year-old’s friends alerted their parents, who called authorities. The North Paulding High School was arrested and charged with three felony counts of making terroristic threats, one count of disruption of a public school and one count of being an unruly juvenile.

Aug. 15, 2010: Brendon Scott Vernon, 18, was arrested for posting a bomb threat on his Facebook profile, threatening to “blow up” Brownsburg High School. The statement posted by Vernon read, “Blowing up the school tonight, who all is down?” Brownsburg, Ind., police officials said that during the interview Vernon said that he been hanging out with a 17-year-old friend, who said she did not want to go back to school. He then said that he would blow up the school for her.

Feb. 7, 2010: Palm Bay police arrest Sylvia Jennifer Hernandez, 32, posted threats on another woman’s Facebook page. The woman told police that she was afraid of Hernandez.

Sources: The News-Times (Danbury, Connecticut), Canwest News Service, Associated Press, Hendricks County Flyer (Avon, Indiana) Compiled by Staff Researcher Barbara Hijek