Father Arrested After Boarding Bus, Making Threats Against Student

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Police have arrested a man who boarded a school bus and threatened a 7-year-old boy last week, WCSC reports.

Timothy James Capazzi has been charged with assault and battery in the third degree. According to police, Capazzi entered a school bus while it was at a bus stop and made verbal threats directed at a young boy who, Capazzi claims, assaulted his son on the bus the previous day.

The bus driver put out a distress call to the transportation department, summoning the police.

This incident is similar to one that occured in Florida last month in which James Jones boarded his daughter’s school bus to confront children who were allegedly bullying her. 

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