This is a small post-Uvalde-shooting story that I might not have posted had it not happened in Donna ISD.
Four students at a high school in Donna, TX were arrested last week for making terroristic threats towards their school just days after the Uvalde shooting.
Two 17-year-old males — Barbarito Pantoja and Nathaniel Montelongo — were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Both were held on $750,000 bond. That charge, if convicted, carries with it up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
An anonymous tip was made on the same day as the Uvalde shooting in which 21 people, including 19 children, were murdered.
Police investigated the tip, which led to the arrest of Pantoja and Montelongo, along with two other students, to-date unnamed juveniles, who were also arraigned last week.
Classes resumed Tuesday in Donna Independent School District after the administration canceled classes for the week once discovering the threat. “We’ve received a credible threat of violence that is currently under investigation,” the district’s statement to parents read. “In light of the recent events and in an abundance of caution, we will be canceling school district-wide and staff will work from home.”
According to initial reports, an AK-47 and a “hit list” were found at the home of one of the students, but Donna Police Chief Gilbert Guerrero later said his department found no such list and did not specify whether a firearm was found.
Time to dig this handy visual aid out again:
Absent an actual weapon, I suspect there’s less to this story than meets the eye, and is probably nothing more than a case of disgruntled teenagers shooting their mouths off. What really caught my eye was the fact this happened in Donna ISD, which punches well above its weight for stories of weirdness and corruption. Previous Donna ISD stories:
And that’s to say nothing of Round Rock ISD importing sketchy Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez from Donna ISD.
I don’t know what it is, but Donna ISD produces more notable news stories than every other Rio Grande Valley school district combined.
Maybe there’s a South Texas version of the South Florida Giant Underground Weirdness Magnet…
Tags: active shooter, Brad Johnson, Crime, Donna ISD, Hidalgo County, Rio Grande Valley, Texas
The Donna ISD was just lucky that there wasn’t a special someone to encourage and set up the local wack job. “Sal” was a defective mental case who had been thrown out of his drug addict Mother’s home, was crashing on a mattress on his Granny’s floor, and who maybe, had an occasional job at Wendy’s, but who showed up at Robb Elementary with $5,000 to $10,000 worth of firearms, accessories, ammo, and combat gear. What agency has the resources to crawl the gutters of the internet and fund the defectives that they find? They must not have had time to groom the Donna bad boys. Or maybe “Sal” was picking up a lot of cash working as a “mule” or “punk” along the Democratic Border. That might explain the pretty girlie outfit that he was photographed in along with the tranny flag. (It always pays to advertise.)
That entire situation stinks, but it is the future that they have in mind for us.
Lots of unanswered questions with Uvalde. I don’t know too many minimum-wage fast-food workers with the spare cash to lay out for high-end rifles and all the accessories/ammo he had with him. Not to mention, why didn’t he just plump down for the generic stuff? Where’d he get his practice time in, and why wasn’t he noticed doing that? Who taught him to shoot?
All unanswered questions, these.
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