MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Colquitt County middle school student was arrested this week after school authorities received reports of he had written something threatening in a book.

Students at Willie J. Williams Middle School were not in danger during the episode and there was no lockdown at the campus, Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office officers said.

The male student apparently wrote something threatening in a school textbook, said sheriff’s Lt. David Kent.

“It was brought to the administration’s attention yesterday (Thursday) morning about a student who had made some threats.”

School officials reacted and brought the student in to talk as part of their investigation. Kent said he could not divulge the specific nature of the threats. During that investigation the student admitted that it was his writing in the textbook.

No weapon was brought on school property and none was located during the course of the investigation by the school system and sheriff’s office, Kent said.

The nerves of students and parents nationwide understandably are on edge in the wake of the Valentine’s Day slaying of 17 students and the wounding of others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Any time reports of threats or potential violence are made to school or law enforcement they are thoroughly investigated, Kent said.

“Any time a threat comes in we always do our due diligence,” he said. “We always take it seriously.”

The student involved in Thursday’s incident has been charged with one count of terroristic threats and acts, Kent said. The charge is a felony.

After contacting the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice and reporting the details of what occurred, that agency allowed the student to be released to the custody of his parents, Kent said.

In the Thursday incident, students reacted as they have been instructed by telling an adult about what they had observed, sheriff’s Capt. Mike Murfin said.

“It’s one of those things where, you hear something, you say something; you see something, you say something,” he said.