12-year-old boy, man arrested for alleged threatening video displaying handguns

A 12-year-old boy and a 39-year-old man were arrested Wednesday after the boy allegedly sent a video displaying handguns and making threatening statements to students at James Workman Middle School.

Officers responded to the middle school around 9 a.m. Wednesday and determined that the boy was not present, according to Commander Jon Enos of the Cathedral City Police Department.

Enos said detectives served a search warrant at 11:35 a.m. for the boy’s residence in the 67700 block of Verona Road, where they allegedly found three firearms, including the ones depicted in the video.

“Since the residence was near Rio Vista Elementary, the department requested the school to go on lockdown for safety precautions,” Enos said. The elementary school was locked down from 11:25 a.m. to 11:46 a.m.