Juvenile Arrested For Threat To West Central School District

The Henderson County Sheriff’s Department announcing a credible threat to the West Central School District.  And an investigation has led to the arrest of a juvenile on a felony charge of disorderly conduct-school threat. The youth was arrested Wednesday afternoon and is in custody at the Mary Davis Detention Center in Galesburg. The Sheriff’s Office was made aware of the threat over the school’s Thanksgiving break and deputies interviewed several witnesses and found the threat to be credible.  The disorderly conduct-school threat charge is a class 4 felony which carries a sentence of one to four years in the Department of Corrections and a fine up to $25,000. No other information is being released at this time.