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3 Albion students accused in school plot appear in court

Three students from an Albion middle school appeared in court Wednesday to answer to charges connected to an alleged threat against the school.

ALBION, N.Y. — Three students from an Albion middle school appeared in court Wednesday to answer to charges connected to an alleged threat against the school.

That's according to an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The article states attorneys for the three boys denied the charges and the judge released the boys into the custody of the parents as long as they were supervised and had no access to the internet. 

Albion Village Police Chief Roland D. Nenni III said the seeds of the plot being discovered began November 4, when a staff member alerted school officials to something they had heard, who then alerted police.

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"Initially it was a student-on-student threat, the type of which happens every day in probably every school district in America," Nenni said.

However, this set into motion an investigation by the school's threat assessment team, which was established, with the aid of the FBI, at the beginning of the school year and which revealed much more.

"That investigation that the team started along with the Albion Police revealed the students were in the process of developing a plan to kill and injure occupants of the middle school. The plan was to enter the middle school with explosives and incendiary devices and firearms to kill and injure students and staff," Nenni said.

Nenni also revealed that a date had been set by the three to carry out the attack but declined to reveal when that was envisioned to occur.

He also would not disclose the names of the students, who he confirmed are all under the age of 16.

The students are currently suspended pending the required superintendent's hearing, specified by law, to determine ongoing consequences for the students, according to school officials. 

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