Charleston High School Student in Custody After Threat

A Charleston High School student is in custody after allegedly threatening the murder of high school administrators.

(ANDREW WATTS)

18-year-old Andrew P. Watts was arrested on a count of electronic threat against a school official in connection with an incident alleged to have occurred on Friday.

Charleston police say officers responded to Charleston High School and other locations as a result of a complaint of a student making a threat of murder to the high school administrators.

The release from Charleston police indicates that Watts allegedly participated in a conversation in which he told another individual of the planned-out crime. A subsequent investigation led to Watts' arrest.

Watts is being held in Coles County Jail on $100,000 bond.