KENTON COUNTY, Ky. (WLWT)– A man is in jail after police say he was accused of making threats against schools in Northern Kentucky.
After brief negotiations, 19-year-old Billy Jones Jr. surrendered to police and was arrested at a Florence apartment Monday morning.
According to police, they found a stolen handgun during their search of the place he was staying.
Authorities said the threats Jones is accused of making were not against a specific school, but schools in the area.
He was charged with terroristic threatening and receiving stolen property-firearm.
Jones was taken to the Kenton County Detention Center.