Teachers In Fort Hamilton $ 100,000 Bail After Alleged 'Columbine' Threat To School: Did an art teacher threaten to shoot up Fort Hamilton High School with a machine gun in a Columbine-type massacre, or was she just venting her emotions?
That's the question a grand jury will review the criminal case against the art teacher Sabrina Milo goes ahead.
Milo, 34, was released from Rikers Island on Sunday after paying a $ 100,000 bail following his arrest Friday.
The art teacher was taken to Fort Hamilton High School in handcuffs on Friday and was charged with making a terrorist threat.
The alleged threat was made three days earlier, on Tuesday, according to authorities, who said Milo was the teacher's lounge and heard three colleagues when he made his explosive comments.
Milo tears announced that it had to pull out a gun under a trench coat to build schools and hire a Columbine-type shooting to get even with people who had wronged him, authorities said .
The teachers, who were terrified by the words of Milo, reported the threat to the security guards at the school, authorities said.
Officials from the Ministry of Education of New York have also been reported, authorities said. It is not clear why three days elapsed between the time Milo had made his threat and when he was arrested by the police.
Milo was charged on Saturday and the court ordered his release on bail of $ 100,000, despite the objections of his lawyer, Andrew Stoll, who told the court the criminal charge was "totally unjustified."
Stoll, Milo told the court that no threat to anyone.
During his bail hearing on Sunday, Milo was ordered by the judge to stay away from Fort Hamilton High School and to differentiate from teachers who had submitted the alleged threat.
Milo was a master in the system of public schools in New York for 10 years. She is married to Lee Anderson, 64, who also works at Fort Hamilton High School. Anderson, a retired military officer, is in charge of the Junior ROTC program at the school. Milo Anderson and lived in Staten Island.
Anderson has taken bail for his wife but did not speak with reporters afterwards.
Thomas Greene, Assistant Director retired from Fort Hamilton, said he thinks the incident is strange. "I was wondering if anyone at school bothered to get his side of the story before they called the police and arrested," said Greene.
Greene said he did not know Milo, but knew her husband.
"It 's a great teacher," Greene said.
"Columbine" incident is not the first time that Milo is in trouble at Fort Hamilton High School. E 'was removed from class last year, when he was a physical confrontation with a student, authorities said.
She later was reinstated and returned to the classroom.
If convicted of the charge for terrorist threats, Milo could live up to five years imprisonment. Fort Hamilton students had mixed reactions to news of his arrest.
"It's weird. I always get nervous. I hope not comeing (sic) back," a student wrote the www.ratemyteachers.com.
"It is a very cool teacher. One of my favorites, "wrote another student.
On Wednesday, reports have indicated that students were planning a school-wide strike on April 6 to protest the arrest of Milo.
Shocking art teacher arrest marks the second time in less than a month, the Fort Hamilton High School was the news less than favorable light.
On 11 March, an incident of acid attacks in a chemistry class made headlines around the country.
Students Smsarian Zhanna, 16, was arrested and charged with assault and his fellow classmate Eshimbaeva Albina. Smsarian allegedly poured acid on the head during Eshimbaeva chemistry course.
Smsarian allegedly insulted Eshimbaeva then poured a solution containing 10 per cent acid and 90 percent of water on the victim's head. A quick-thinking teacher washed the victim's eyes and face with water and then called the 911th
Eshimbaeva was transported to a local hospital where she was treated and released. The victim was aged 15 suffered burns to his head, but was spared more serious injury because the acid thrown on her was highly diluted with water, authorities said.
After the attack, the reports stressed that the incident was due to a dispute the two girls, during which a man early '20s, they both liked.
"There was a lot of stories about it. But it was not the boy. It had nothing to do with it," said Dep. Insp. Eric Rodriguez, commander of the area.
Both girls are honor students at Fort Hamilton, and both were cadets at junior high school ROTC program. Smsarian ROTC was in uniform when she left the court after his indictment.
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