Should I Call The Cops?

That bit about the WPA protecting you is rubbish. People are NOT put into witness protection programmes as simply as that. Not trying to frighten you, just don't want you to be misinformed. The police will not take a 17 year old's threat to burn down a house seriously. That is to say, they will assume he was "talking trash". HOWEVER, they will do one of several things. 1) They will talk to him and make it CLEAR that he'd better hope to God that nothing happens, cos he will be the prime suspect. 2) They will take him in on suspicion of making a terroristic threat. 3) They will talk to him and he'll mouth off and then they'll take him to jail once he gets out of hospital. 4) They will take him in for living in an abandoned house on one of several charges (if he lives there). 5) They will take him in without actually arresting him, but by the time he's released, he/the abandoned house will be under surveillance.

So the answer is yes...call the police. Explain about the threat (have your DAD explain, as therefore it's not "hearsay"). Explain that your sisters/mum are frightened.

His simply making the threat means that he could be done up on several charges. Premeditated arson, premeditated murder, blackmail...to name a few. The police won't take a threat from a 17 year old seriously...but they will take it seriously...if you take my meaning.

EDIT: As regards number 4, they may take him in for trespassing if he doesn't live there. They may even make it clear that if he comes NEAR the house he is trespassing. As in issue a restraining order (the police can do this in certain cases, a private citizen need not even request it).

They should go to a motel for a while. I don't know if they should have had the undocumented people taken away. They should say that they feel threatened, though. And maybe the 17-year-old should be let known by the cops that if anything happens to your family, they will go after him.

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You should call the cops. Those guys who are threatening you are just talking smack. And besides, the WPA* will protect you guys from any danger if those guys say they'll do something bad to you.

*WPA = witness protection agency