LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person who used a highschool acquaintance’s identify in a web based menace a couple of mass taking pictures at a Clark County Faculty District highschool will serve at the very least six years in jail, a decide dominated Monday.
Noah Delponso, 31, accepted a responsible plea earlier this 12 months on fees together with making a terror menace and stalking, information stated. As a part of a plea deal, Delponso agreed to serve as much as 20 years in jail.
“I want to commend you on taking steps that will ultimately serve you well when you are released,” Clark County District Court docket Choose Jessica Peterson informed Delponso earlier than she sentenced him to the 6-to-20-year sentence.
In 2022, an worker at Cheyenne Excessive Faculty contacted CCSD police, saying an individual had contacted the college concerning the menace, which was posted on a cell software, investigators stated.
The publish learn, “My name is Zachary [redacted] and I will commit a mass shooting at Cheyenne High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Oct. 12, 2022,” based on paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained afterward.
Police stated Delponso was utilizing the identify of a former classmate and making “online threats posing as him,” detectives wrote in court docket paperwork. The actual Zachary, whose identify is redacted within the paperwork, had beforehand filed a police report for harassment in opposition to Delponso, police stated.
Whereas looking Delponso’s room, police stated they discovered a rifle, ammunition, and different “items of concern.”
In June 2021, Delponso pleaded responsible to creating a hoax menace. In that case, police stated Delponso known as a lodge and stated, “There is a bomb, there is a bomb,” paperwork stated. In that case, a decide sentenced Delponso to 4 months within the Clark County Detention Heart.
Delponso additionally served jail time on a fraud cost in 2016, information confirmed.
There was no indication that the protection of scholars or workers was ever in danger.
