Juvenile Detention

East Hills Student Charged With Poking Boy With Knife
Allentown Morning Call - A student said the boy came up behind him in the hall and held a sharp object to his throat. The student said he was able to get away. Later, the 12-year-old boy again approached the student in the hallway, pulled the knife out of his pocket and

Published May 13
ABC2 News - ROCKVILLE, Md. - Two Montgomery County teenagers are facing 22 charges each for allegedly setting numerous fires that they later bragged about on the Internet. The 17-year-old schoolmates were involved in 17 fires in Montgomery County, and each faces

Chief defends use of Taser at NHS
Newark Advocate - NEWARK -- Scores of Newark High School students signed an anti-Taser petition the same day a court hearing was scheduled for the two ninth-graders whose fighting led a police officer to use the weapon on one of them. A court hearing was scheduled for

Teen Girls Arrested for Alleged Assault
WPVI - May 12, 2006 - A group of girls is behind bars Friday night after the teen attackers targeted two women in Mercer County. The attacks happened Thursday night in Hamilton Township. The first involved an elderly woman at Greenwood and Atlantic Avenues

Program chosen for evaluation
Herald and News - LAKEVIEW - A Lakeview middle school girl who attempted to kill two classmates with rat poison will spend up to 12 years in a juvenile detention center. Holly Sweeney, 13, was sentenced Friday to the custody of the Hillcrest Girls School in Salem, a

Juvenile officer arrested on alcohol charge again
NWITimes.com - VALPARAISO | A longtime Porter County Juvenile Detention officer is back behind bars on a public intoxication charge less than a month after pleading guilty to drunken driving. William Pete, 48, of 161 Linden Court, Hebron, pleaded not guilty during