A 16-year-old boy was in critical condition Friday after being shot while walking near Santa Ana High School with a friend. The boy was hit in the upper torso while students were leaving the school, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna told the Orange County Register. The friend was uninjured and tried to help the [...]
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When John Levulis first heard his 13-year-old daughter was being picked on in school, he thought it was simply a case of kids being kids. But when he saw the rips on her backpack, allegedly from a classmate pulling on it, and heard she was circled by a group of five girls and challenged to [...]
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A fight involving between 30 and 40 students broke out today at Carson High School, leaving at least three in the hospital and at least two under arrest. Apparently teachers did not break up the fight that broke out in the school’s courtyard at about 10:00 a.m. today. Students reported seeing punches and kicks fly, [...]
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David Muhammad has a checkered past in Juvenile Justice where NY and CA Juvenile Justice Departments are picking up DC and Maryland Juvenile Justice rejects in what amounts to a revolving door of incompetent administrators. Here’s the past story: In 2010 DC Mayor Adrian Fenty fired the head of the DC’s juvenile rehabilitation agency under [...]
Less than a year after he beat a woman at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese’s, the 17-year-old groped a woman at a playground. A woman who was jumped and beaten last year by a 16-year-old boy lurking in the ladies restroom at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese restaurant says the teen has struck again, groping [...]
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A series of fights involving students from Santa Monica High School has resulted in suspensions and a stepped-up police presence near campus, officials say. The conflict began Jan. 5 after the school day ended, said Sgt. Richard Lewis, a spokesperson for the Santa Monica Police Department. An argument broke into a fight, and one participant [...]
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The “worst of the worse” young criminals could return from state lockups to Stanislaus County under California’s projected “trigger cuts,” local authorities fear. Jill Silva, the county’s acting chief probation officer, said, “We’re not equipped to take them back.” Keeping young inmates in the state’s Division of Juvenile Justice could cost the county an extra [...]
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Campus officials report that a shooting took place Tuesday afternoon at the Haas School of Business. The suspect was seen carrying a gun. A staff member reported this to the police, who responded immediately. The suspect entered a computer room, where police followed him and asked him to put up his hands. The suspect then [...]
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