FAIRHOPE, Alabama—On Tuesday, a senior at Fairhope High School was arrested after police investigated possible threats made toward other students at the school that day.

Shane Morgan Moseley, 19, was arrested March 13 and charged with disorderly conduct, resulting from his “tumultuous conduct” after Fairhope officers contacted him that evening during their investigation, police said.

A Fairhope police spokesman confirmed that two rifles and three shotguns belonging to Moseley were removed from his home, after they were provided to police by his parents.

“We are working with the District Attorney on additional charges,” Sgt. Craig Sawyer said by email today. “We expect at least one charge of making terrorist threats, which is a felony.”

Moseley was booked into the Fairhope Municipal Jail on the disorderly conduct charge and moved to the Baldwin County Corrections Center in Bay Minette where he was being held without bail as of press time.

“We cannot disclose the exact wording of the threats, since we need to protect his right to a fair trial,” Sawyer stated by email on March 15. “But in his threats he referred to ‘tomorrow.’ The threat was made on Tuesday, indicating that if he planned on carrying out any threats, it would have been on Wednesday.”

Fairhope police were on the high school campus Wednesday to reassure students, parents and faculty, Sawyer said.

When Moseley was arrested he was in possession of a synthetic substance that mimics the effects of marijuana commonly known as “spice,”  Sawyer said. “That substance was just recently made illegal in Alabama, and we are working with the DA to determine the proper way to charge that offense.”

Fox 10 News reported today in an interview with Wanda Moseley, the suspect’s mother, that her son was a special education student, and that the things he may have said that were reported as threats were misinterpreted.

“He’s been wanting the students to hear what he has to say about God, and it just got blown out of proportion,” Moseley’s mother told the local TV reporter.