Gaming company alerts police about suicide bomb threat at Arkansas school

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FORT SMITH, Ark. – A 13-year-old Arkansas boy faces a possible felony charge after allegedly threatening to "suicide-bomb" his junior high school, according to police.

After an online gaming platform alerted investigators, they were able to identify a student in connection to the threat by using the boy's screen name, a news release states.

Police found the boy with his grandfather at a Fort Smith home Sunday.  The juvenile suspect had been suspended from school in the past for making similar threats, according to KFSM.

Officers arrested the teen for felony first-degree terroristic threatening. He is being held in the Sebastian County Juvenile Detention Center.

The Fort Smith Police Department released the following statement: