(UPDATED) 20-Year-Old Student Arrested In Connection With Threats At The University Of Alabama
11 years ago

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UPDATE: An earlier version of this story implied that Dakota Timm was the author behind the original YouTube post that sparked a frenzy on the Alabama campus. That information was incorrect. It has been updated.

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A student who sent threatening text messages pretending to be the author of an alarming YouTube comment has been arrested, according to AL.com.

Dakota Timm, a 20-year-old Pike from Virginia Beach, Va., was charged with obstructing governmental operations for sending these texts. The original YouTube comment, posted by the anonymous author Timm claimed to be, placed Old Row and New Row on high alert and forced one girls’ dorm to go into a lockdown for nearly an hour:

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Rumors spread around campus Sunday night that an attack was imminent, or that one had already happened. Students feared that a group of men with weapons in Joker masks were breaking into Tutwiler Hall, an all-girls dorm, and that one girl had already been strangled. Both are ludicrous thoughts, but when nobody tells you it isn’t happening, you tend to believe everything you hear.

Students who have been banking off these threats and taking class days off won’t get penalized, the school administration said Tuesday, but they will have to make up the work they missed. So, if you opted to take an early fall break, may as well just push it through the end of the week and deal with all the make-up work later.

Authorities continue to investigate what they call a “serious” threat.

[via AL.com]

Image via WHNT/Tuscaloosa County Jail

  2. ROLL_TIDE17

    This is completely false. Get your facts straight and take this down. He was NOT connected to the original threats at all as stated by UAPD

    11 years ago at 12:25 pm
    1. ronald mcdonald

      this article seems pretty certain bud. you’d be best off deleting your thoughtless comments. as a former alabama student i can just picture you as one of the thousands of spoiled shits that walked that campus. i’d make a joke about the auburn game last year, but i’d rather not seeing as kids like you actually trick themselves into thinking they’re on the team so go fuck yourself

      11 years ago at 5:56 pm
  3. mef2

    This article is completely wrong. You have almost zero valid information. Get your facts straight before you go around spreading rumors. Thats the reason this entire thing is blown out of proportion in the first place. Rumors rumors rumors.

    11 years ago at 12:35 pm
    1. mef2

      whoever posted this article is the actual idiot. everything in this article is false and it needs to be corrected or taken down. “BroHandsome” you should be embarrassed for making such a comment…. this article is completely distasteful and it is creating more rumors and problems than there were in the first place.

      11 years ago at 1:12 pm
  6. highlander757

    TFM y’all are a bunch of douches. This is one of my good friends from VB and it’s sad to see the media portray him as a crook. he had nothing to do with the original comments made. this article is completely false just like all the other media being posted. and he isn’t a GDI either. and Timm will not likely be expelled either but he will persue justice in his name!!!

    11 years ago at 1:21 pm
    1. Broccoli_salad

      Yeah justice! By the time it’s all said and done the world will know he sent JK at the end of his text where he claimed to be a sociopath!

      11 years ago at 9:16 am
  8. AzizAnsari

    Even if he wasn’t “Authur Pendragon” pretending to be still makes you a price of shit.

    11 years ago at 1:35 pm
  9. QuadSquirrel

    LOL @ HelmetStickers sneakily editing his post to reflect correct information… own up to your crappy journalism and make a public edit. “Edit: All the information in the above article is false because I’m too lazy to do my research”

    11 years ago at 2:16 pm