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FBI, police raid related to Plainfield threats

Police raid underway on Plainfield threats
Posted at 9:24 AM, May 24, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-25 00:18:40-04

PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- A break could be coming for the investigation of several violent threats made against those at Plainfield High School and other public locations around Plainfield.

Sources tell Call 6 Investigates that the FBI, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Plainfield Police Department and other assisting agencies worked on a search warrant and raid for a location in Plainfield.

It was the same location that police took two juveniles out of in January. Neighbors said at the time that a Plainfield High School student lives in the house. Several pieces of evidence were taken to a mobile command unit, including an all-in-one computer. 

When asked about the investigation, an FBI spokesperson said:

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies from the Plainfield Police Department, Brownsburg Police Department, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indiana State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation are conducting criminal investigative activity at locations in Plainfield, Indiana.  There is no further information available at this time.

It has been a little more than five months since the first threats were posted.

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The online threats began in December, when a person posted on Facebook, threatening violence against a specific student at Plainfield High School. The person said they had three pipe bombs, two handguns and a semi automatic rifle. 

In another post, the suspect appeared to taunt authorities, tagging Plainfield's and Danville's police Facebook pages, as well as the FBI's page.

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In a meeting a month later between concerned parents and Plainfield police, a man was removed for bringing a gun. The man was preliminarily charged with possession of a firearm on school property. 

Police eventually closed the meeting despite protests from attendees that questions remained.
 
 
The last update to the case came in February, when the person behind the threats said they were all fake. That person claimed he hacked the iCloud account of a Plainfield student that he never met or had contact with.
 
He said all of the threats were fake and that he never once considered carrying them out. 
 
He also taunted the police -- saying the case will never be solved and that he lives an ocean away. 

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