'We Were Being Immature': 2 Arizona Teenagers Charged For Calling In Threats To City Of Pryor

Mayes County prosecutors charged two Arizona teenagers for calling in death threats to a Pryor businessman, threatening to shoot up a school and threatening to blow up all of Pryor. 

Pryor Police said it’s a one-in-a-billion chance that Tate Woffinden and his teenage buddy picked Pryor randomly on a map.

Investigators said the boys told police it was just a “funny prank." But Pryor Police didn’t find it funny one bit, and called it a complete waste of resources. 

Those boys will now have to make the 1,100-mile trip to Pryor to face their charge of making a terrorism hoax. 

News On 6 obtained a video from Woffinden's interview with Mesa Police. Investigators say Woffinden admitted to everything and made comments saying, "They were just saying stuff like bombs and guns. We were just being stupid. We were being immature," said Woffinden. He goes on to tell police, "Dude I promise you, I’m not going to go shoot up a school, or I don’t have bombs.” 

U.S. Marshals arrested Woffinden and his 17-year-old friend this week in Mesa, Arizona.

Investigators say the two called a Pryor insurance company last September and left a voicemail saying they were going to kill an employee and his family. 

In the police interview, Woffinden said: “We were just saying, we have this stuff. We were just being stupid."

Officer: “Like what stuff?”

Woffinden: “Like bombs and guns and nukes.” 

“They actually mentioned that it was going to be a holocaust in Pryor. And that Pryor was going to wake up and the town was going to be in shambles," said Sergeant Justin Allen with Pryor Police. 

Allen says they take all threats seriously so several agencies, including OHP’s bomb squad, were called in to help. 

Investigators traced the cell phone number back to Woffinden in Arizona. Woffinden told investigators he was in his mom's car with his buddy at four in the morning and used the map in the car to pick a random place to call, and they just happened to pick Pryor. 

Sergeant Allen says they want to make it clear, there’s nothing funny about threatening to shoot up a school, a hospital, or anywhere. 

"By his own admission it was immature, and it was a joke and it was a prank. It was not taken as such here," said Sergeant Allen. “It was like a needle in a haystack type of chance of them calling the specific business in Pryor Oklahoma. As a result of that. They were lucky enough to have called a business and an area where we truly care about our community." 

We called Woffinden’s Oklahoma attorney and are waiting to hear back. 

Investigators say the two suspects will either be extradited to Pryor, or their parents will have to bring them.