Last updated:14/05/2008
Death threat student now faces child porn charges

An American student accused of threatening to blow up a professor, placing a hand grenade on the desk and forcing a class to be cancelled has now been indicted on charges of child pornography possession.

Harvie David Hensley, who graduated from McLennan Community College in 2003 with an associate’s degree in criminal justice, has been jailed with $20,000 bail since November, when he was arrested on terroristic threat charges.

At the time of his arrest, Hensley was taking criminal justice classes through another university at McLennan Community College.

Hensley’s trial on the terroristic threat charges was postponed because of the new indictment.

According to records filed in the case, the porn was found after a campus police investigator obtained a search warrant for Hensley’s computer while investigating complaints against Hensley.

At least two female students reported that Hensley was stalking and harassing them, including leaving intimidating notes on their cars, according to courthouse records.

A month later, a professor and two students reported that Hensley told a student that he was going to blow up the lecturer’s car with her inside. He reportedly told the other student not to be afraid if she saw a grenade on her desk because it would be a “dud.”

She said he told her that he has real grenades and guns at home.

Other records filed in the case indicate that Hensley reportedly told fellow students that all of the teachers “deserve to be shot.” Hensley also reportedly shoved an instructor against a wall in 2003 and threatened to kill him, although the professor declined to file charges, said campus police chief Larry Radke.

In the next few weeks the college will start a system in which students are notified through e-mails, text messages or phone messages if there is a security concern on campus, said school spokeswoman Lisa Wilhelmi.