Bullet News
PORT COLBORNE – A Port Colborne high school student has been arrested and charged after allegedly threatening to kill a teacher.
The alleged incident happened Nov. 21 at Port Colborne High School.
Police say the teacher was attempting to deal with the student, who was “disrupting the instruction of the class and distracting other students.
Following an investigation, police on Monday charged the youth with uttering a death threat.
John Robbins, an award-winning multimedia journalist, joined Bullet News as a staff writer in January 2011. He was named editor in April 2013. The veteran reporter worked in Niagara and Fort Erie for more than a decade, using his investigative skills in a wide range of beats, including local politics, health/environment, education, business and tourism. His writing has earned him six Ontario Newspaper Awards Robbins, born and raised in Niagara Falls, studied at Emmanuel Bible College and Brock University before graduating from the Journalism-Print program at Niagara College, where he earned several scholarships and awards. During his 11 years as a reporter at the Niagara Falls Review, Robbins, who was Fort Erie bureau chief from 2002-2006, was instrumental in bringing video and e-reporting skills into daily practice at the newspaper and helped build its web and social media audiences. In 2009, Robbins received an appointment to journalism-print advisory committee at Niagara College. Robbins lives in Ridgeway.
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