The Brooklyn art teacher who allegedly threatened to launch a Columbine-style gun attack at a Bay Ridge high school was ordered held on $100,000 bail today.
Sabrina Milo, 34, was charged with making terrorist threats, a class D felony, and kept in custody while her husband, Lee Anderson, and her lawyer figured out what to do.
Milo allegedly went off in the teacher break room at Fort Hamilton High School on March 27, saying she would take a "machine gun under a trench coat and it’s would be Columbine all over again," referring to the bloody 1999 school shooting in Colorado, according to prosecutors
She was upset an crying as she made the alleged threat in front of three other teachers, a prosecutor said in Brooklyn Criminal Court today. The other educators went to the school’s principal, who went to the Department of Education. She was busted Friday.
Her lawyer, Andrew Stoll, told the court at her arraignment that "She is not a threat to anybody.
He also said that the lag between the time of the alleged threat and the arrest struck him as strange.
"For three days people who heard these statements tried to decided what to do," he said. "This is many people covering for themselves."
After the hearing he said about the charge : "The grand jury will decide. I’m confident the grand jury will dismiss it."
Milo allegedly made the statements Tuesday at about 12:30 p.m.
This wasn’t the first brush with trouble for Milo, who was hired by the Department of Education in 2001.
She was sent to a rubber room for a disciplinary issue last May, but was allowed to return to the classroom at the start of the school year in September.
Yesterday, prosecutors said she was facing further disciplinary action, though they did not specify what.
It was not clear if she had actually plotted to carry out the shooting spree, but officials feared she might have access to guns because her husband had been in the military.
Anderson, is a 64-year-old Vietnam veteran who is a retired Lt. Colonel in the Army and a the junior ROTC instructor at the school.
His ex-wife, Marisa Anderson told The Post "I’m not surprised" when asked about the charges against his current wife.
Milo has a reputation for wackiness. On the web site Rate My Teachers, got a 4.8 out of 5 rating and several positive reviews, but a few of the anonymous commentors felt the need to defend her sanity.
"She’s wonderful! She’s not crazy, like some people may think," one commentor said.
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