Ex-Carroll student sentenced to probation for harassment

A Carroll Senior High School graduate has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for harassing a female student at the school in 2014.

A charge of making a terroristic threat against the school was dismissed as part of a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.

Hudson Lloyd Bales, 19, of Southlake was sentenced to 12 months of probation with deferred adjudication on Dec. 3 on the charge of harassment, according to Tarrant County court records.

The hearing was earlier this month in County Criminal Court No. 7 in Fort Worth.

Neither Bales nor his attorney, Steve Gordon of Fort Worth, could be reached Tuesday for comment.

He avoided jail time on both charges. Making a terroristic threat is a Class A misdemeanor and carried a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.

Prosecutors also could not be reached on Tuesday.

Southlake police arrested Bales on Sept. 2, 2014 after he tweeted the threats, police said. He tweeted “personal threats” to a female student and to an “unspecified school” before he unsuccessfully “attempted to locate a firearm,” police said. The school was later identified as Carroll Senior High, 1501 W. Southlake Blvd.

Police have said Bales couldn’t get to his parents’ firearm, which was locked away.

A female student reported the threats, police have said. The teen immediately told a school resource officer and police found Bales at home 12 minutes after the threats were reported, police said.

This report contains information from Star-Telegram archives.

This story was originally published December 22, 2015 at 3:29 PM with the headline "Ex-Carroll student sentenced to probation for harassment."