A mother threatened to blow up an elementary school and beat up the principal if she failed to pick up her child, according to Florida court records.
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A mother threatened to blow up an elementary school and beat up the principal if she wasn’t allowed to pick up her child on campus, according to Florida court records.
Tiffanymarie Pirozzi, 29, arrived at University Park Elementary in Melbourne around 8 a.m. on Oct. 5 when a school resource officer pulled her over to issue her a traffic ticket and a warning for trespassing, according to a Brevard County sheriff’s affidavit. Office.
She threw the warning out the window and left the school, the affidavit said.
She later called 911 and told dispatchers she needed a police officer to meet her at the school because she was “going to break this (expletive) up,” the affidavit said. She said if the school wouldn’t let her take her “(expletive) baby” she would “blow it (expletive) up.”
The school sheltered in place because of the threat, according to the affidavit.
Pirozzi also called the school’s principal, who told her that she would not be allowed back on school grounds and that she would have to make other arrangements to have her child picked up.
Pirozzi told the principal that if she couldn’t pick up her child, “I’m going to punch you and beat you (expletive),” the affidavit states.
Pirozzi was arrested without incident and faces multiple charges, including second-degree “false report of a deadly explosion or arson” and third-degree fleeing and eluding a police officer, both felonies, according to sheriff’s department records.
Pirozzi was released from jail on Oct. 7 and is scheduled to be arraigned in Brevard District Court on Nov. 8, according to Sheriff’s Department records.
Melbourne is about 180 miles north of Miami.
