Akins High student jailed, confesses to making clown threats

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After several weeks of fielding threats involving clowns, the Austin Independent School District says an Akins High School student is in jail accused of making clown threats against his school.
Nine AISD schools received threats over the past week, most of which were targeted towards middle and high schools. AISD Police Chief Eric Mendez described the kind of threats he’s seeing: “Some of the threats can be ‘we’ll be at your campus on this date or at