A Portal teen, apparently angry with his girlfriend’s mother, was jailed Wednesday after police investigated complaints of threats.

Peyton Tylor Soles, 17, of a Johnson Street, Portal, address, used a computer to generate a terroristic threat, said Madison Warren, Statesboro police community information specialist.

“He was mad at his girlfriend’s mother and … threatened her online,” Warren said. Soles reportedly stated he would “kill her,” she said.

While in the past, such utterances might be ignored, in today’s times of mass shootings and other terroristic acts, tolerance of such statements is at zero level, she said.

Statesboro police Chief Mike Broadhead said such actions will be prosecuted.

“Threatening acts of violence is not acceptable and will not be tolerated in any manner,” he said. “Threats like this give the recipients cause to fear for their safety and can cause panic. We take all claims of our citizens receiving threatening communications very seriously and investigate them fully." 

In recent months, other young people in Bulloch and surrounding counties, ranging in age from 10 to early 20s, were arrested on terroristic threat charges after making either verbal or online threats of violence.

Soles, charged with “dissemination of information pertaining to terroristic acts via computer,” was taken to the Bulloch County Jail Wednesday, reports said. He was released Thursday on a $2,000 bond, according to jail records.

Herald reporter Holli Deal Saxon may be reached at (912) 489-9414.