U.K. man arrested in connection with Laurier U. threat

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The Metropolitan Police Service in London, England have arrested a 22-year-old man in England in connection with online threat made against Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo that resulted a lockdown on Friday.

According to Waterloo police, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service arrested the man in Tottenham Hale in north London “on suspicion of malicious communication.”

The man, identified as Daniel Ransem, will be in court on Monday.

The university was locked down from 6 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday after receiving a tip from the FBI about a message threatening the institution posted on the web forum site 4chan. It used similar wording as a threat made before a school shooting in Oregon.

The investigation into the threat involved several agencies including the RCMP, Britain’s National Cyber Crime Unit, the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Service.