Police made three arrests at East Greenwich High School last week, one of a boy with a knife at school and two arrests of girls accused of cyber bullying.

According to Det. Lieutenant Jay Fague, a 17-year-old boy got into an argument with other students and he indicated he had a knife. “Only verbal threats were made,” said Fague. “The knife was never shown or presented to anyone.”

Assistant Principal Tim Chase searched the student’s bag and found a small folding knife. “The student is facing school discipline as well as being petitioned into Family Court for possession of a knife on school grounds,” said Fague.

The other arrests followed an incident between two girls, a 16 year old and a 15 year old, the evening of Jan. 25. They allegedly made threats towards each other and harassed each other on Facebook “to the point that each of them went to the high school administrators the next morning and reported it.”

The girls are facing school discipline and Family Court charges, Fague said.

He said he did not remember any other teens ever being charged with cyber bullying in East Greenwich.

“Any issue that involves bullying, cyber or otherwise, we take very seriously,” said schools superintendent Victor Mercurio. “There’s a policy in place, there are laws in place and we proceed accordingly. If that means that the police have to be called in and we have to bring it to that level, then we’ll absolutely positively do that. The tolerance for that is absolutely zero.”

The same goes for weapons in school, he said. “We have to invite the police in. They make an investigation. If they feel that an arrest has to be made, then we support that.”

The Rhode Island General Assembly passed "The Safe Schools Act" last July. The law directs the state Department of Education "to establish a model policy on cyberbullying prevention."