Victoria I. Perkins, 19, Greenfield
GREENFIELD — Greenfield Police Department officers arrested a former Greenfield-Central High School student who made threats against the school Monday. The woman, Victoria I. Perkins, 19, 5000 block of 300N, is the same woman who entered the high school in April and posted a video about that on social media. Perkins was given a no-trespass order following that incident.
Perkins was arrested Monday under a new preliminary charge of intimidation after a threat was posted on her Instagram account referencing the high school building burning. She had yet to be officially charged by the prosecutor’s office by print time Tuesday afternoon and was still an inmate in the county jail.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Aimee Herring noted the prosecutor’s office has until Wednesday afternoon to officially charge Perkins and will be looking at the case further Tuesday to determine any official charges.
The post from Monday was confirmed by GPD officials as legitimate and said, “You’ll burn just like me soon,” with a blue heart emoji superimposed over a picture of the G-CHS gym.
The social media post circulated among students and parents of G-CHS, causing serious concern for the safety of the school, GPD Deputy Chief Charles McMichael said.
“Many parents have called the school to report the post and many parents have removed their children for the day,” McMichael told the Daily Reporter.
Officials from the GPD were able to locate Perkins, and she was arrested without incident, McMichael said. She was transported to the Hancock County Jail on a preliminary charge of intimidation. Formal charges, however, were to be determined by the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office.
“It’s these types of scenarios we can absolutely not ignore,” McMichael said. “We don’t normally want to make a big deal about these kinds of situations but because it’s caused so many people fear, we felt that this is absolutely something that we needed to let people know about.”
Perkins, a 2022 G-CHS graduate, originally got herself in hot water when she went into the high school April 26 without proper consent. She proceeded to walk through the halls, going in and out of restrooms, all while video-recording a degrading rant aimed at the school’s administration, school resource officers and the safety measures at G-CHS.
The video showed Perkins talking to an officer who approached her and asked her to leave after she had been in the school for more than 10 minutes. She told the officer she was only in the building looking for her transcripts. However, in the more-than-10-minute video, Perkins made several comments, saying things like, “This is why you have bomb threats, because I’m in the building. Just kidding, I don’t have a bomb at all” and “Your school has no security, and I could’ve shot that school up.”
This time around, it was a post referencing burning the G-CHS building, officials said.
Officials from the GPD wanted to remind the community of their strong relationship with the Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation and noted that they will do everything they can to keep the school communities as safe as possible for everyone.
“Criminal activity in, around or involving our schools is taken very seriously,” McMichael said. “Threats of any kind are no joking matter.”
