LEBANON, Indiana — A Lebanon teenager pleaded guilty April 21 to intimidation for allegedly making threats on social media.
Kenneth Getch, who was an 18-year-old Lebanon High School student at the time of the incident, was sentenced to 40 days. According to The Lebanon Reporter, the judge suspended the sentence — excluding the four days he spent in jail after his arrest — and ordered him to serve 32 days of supervised probation and pay $250 in court costs and fines.
NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on the threat and arrest.
The Boone County Sheriff's Office said they were made aware of the threat in October 2022. Investigators said the threat was reportedly made against an unidentified person or people at Western Boone High School.
Officers with the Lebanon Police Department and Lebanon School Corporation Police Department joined the investigation and interviewed Getch and determined there was no immediate threat to anyone at Western Boone.
Getch was given a trespass warning for the Western Boone School Corporation.
Investigators determined the social media threat stemmed from an incident at the Lebanon vs. Western Boone football game at that time.