20-year-old student from Middlesex is facing charges related to an alleged school threat at his college in Minnesota.
Prosecutors allege that Waylon Kurts was planning to carry out a “mass casualty event” at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Kurts was charged Monday in Rice County District Court in Minnesota with conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit threats of violence, terroristic threats and conspiracy to commit theft, court documents show.
Assistant Rice County Attorney Katheryn Burbank wrote in court documents filed Tuesday that Kurts’ mother was planning to meet the $100,000 bail conditions and bring Kurts, who is being held at the Rice County Jail, back to Vermont. Burbank asked the judge to set conditions of release that would require all firearms in Kurts’ Middlesex home to be surrendered to a Vermont law enforcement agency. It was not clear Tuesday afternoon whether the judge had yet considered that request.
Jesse Cordova, a police sergeant in Northfield, Minnesota, wrote in an affidavit that Kurts’ family told police he owned firearms that were stored in Vermont, including an assault rifle.
Kurts’ home address in Middlesex is the same address for Woden Teachout, daughter of Vermont judge Mary Miles Teachout and the sister of Zephyr Teachout, a former Vermonter who ran for New York attorney general in 2016.
Nobody answered the phone on Tuesday at a number listed for Woden Teachout.
Kurts was arrested last week after a custodian discovered empty boxes of high-capacity magazines in a garbage can outside a dorm at St. Olaf College, Cordova wrote in the affidavit.
St. Olaf campus police then searched Kurts’ room and discovered body armor, empty boxes of ammunition, fireworks, knives, a lock-pick set and propane canisters, court documents show.
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20-year-old student from Middlesex is facing charges related to an alleged school threat at his college in Minnesota.
Prosecutors allege that Waylon Kurts was planning to carry out a “mass casualty event” at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Kurts was charged Monday in Rice County District Court in Minnesota with conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit threats of violence, terroristic threats and conspiracy to commit theft, court documents show.
Assistant Rice County Attorney Katheryn Burbank wrote in court documents filed Tuesday that Kurts’ mother was planning to meet the $100,000 bail conditions and bring Kurts, who is being held at the Rice County Jail, back to Vermont. Burbank asked the judge to set conditions of release that would require all firearms in Kurts’ Middlesex home to be surrendered to a Vermont law enforcement agency. It was not clear Tuesday afternoon whether the judge had yet considered that request.
Jesse Cordova, a police sergeant in Northfield, Minnesota, wrote in an affidavit that Kurts’ family told police he owned firearms that were stored in Vermont, including an assault rifle.
Kurts’ home address in Middlesex is the same address for Woden Teachout, daughter of Vermont judge Mary Miles Teachout and the sister of Zephyr Teachout, a former Vermonter who ran for New York attorney general in 2016.
Nobody answered the phone on Tuesday at a number listed for Woden Teachout.
Kurts was arrested last week after a custodian discovered empty boxes of high-capacity magazines in a garbage can outside a dorm at St. Olaf College, Cordova wrote in the affidavit.
St. Olaf campus police then searched Kurts’ room and discovered body armor, empty boxes of ammunition, fireworks, knives, a lock-pick set and propane canisters, court documents show.
This fucker was going to commit a mass shooting and they let him go on $100,000 bail 🙃