Hearing waived on charges student threatened professor

BELLEFONTE — A Penn State student who police said threatened a professor over a B- waived charges of terroristic threats and harassment on to Centre County Court for trial Wednesday prior to a scheduled preliminary hearing.

Apostalo Michael Tsirogiannis, 20, of State College, is accused of sending a threatening e-mail to a professor in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business threatening to put the professor “in a wheelchair” if he did not change his final grade from a B-, according to court documents. The threat allegedly was sent the weekend of May 10-11, police said.

“Lukas I am going to warn you one last chance I am going to ask I want a better than a B-,” the e-mail read, according to court documents. “If I see this on my elion account I swear to god I am going to (expletive) put you in a wheelchair when I see you. You will regret it and I don’t care if they kick me out of school.”