Police Increase Presence at Paul VI High School After Online Threats

Fairfax City police have increased their presence at Paul VI Catholic High School after a poster in a local online forum praised Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and said the school "will be the scene of another massacre."

Sgt. Kyle Penman confirmed the department had launched an investigation into the threats against the school, made by an anonymous poster on the site Fairfax Underground last week.

Officers and school officials are taking the posts "very seriously," Penman said.

Penman and the Archdiocese of Arlington said the police department performed a sweep of the private Catholic school over the weekend, which included bomb-sniffing dogs.

No threat was discovered, said Michael Donohue, the Archdiocese's director of communications, in an email to Patch.

Penman said he thought the threats were looking to exploit the attention around the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed.

"We don't believe anyone is in any danger or there is any cause for alarm," Penman told Patch, "but we are committed to having an increased presence at the school this week and next week, until this issue can be resolved."

Penman said the people behind the Fairfax Underground forum have been "cooperative throughout their investigation" thus far.

"We need [people like this poster] to know - you can't do that," he said.

Yahoo also quotes PVI Principal Virginia Colwell saying police presence will continue "until this is resolved."