Youth sentenced for bomb threats
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May 13, 2013 |
A 12-year-old Naples boy isn't going to be alone
in atoning for calling 911 twice in March to
report bombs in a local public school;
Magistrate Judge Justin Julian was very clear
last week in saying that his parents will pay
consequences as well.
Julian on Thursday sentenced Jacob W. Fletcher
to 180 days detention on both felony counts, a
total of 360 days, and suspended all but two,
opting to give the boy a chance at informal
adjustment through the county juvenile probation
department.
Fletcher, who is not a public school student,
admitted to placing the calls March 18 and 19,
the first of which caused the evacuation and
early release of students in all five Boundary
County public schools March 18. When he placed
the second call a day later, sheriff's
investigators were closing in, and the threat
was treated as the hoax it was.
While Fletcher is not implicated in any of eight
earlier fake bomb threats to disrupt schools,
his were the last so far this year, and he's the
first to admit his guilt and be sentenced. One
other juvenile, also 12, has been charged with
making a threat at the middle school, and a high
school student was expelled earlier this year
for allegedly making a threat at the high
school, though criminal charges have not been
filed in that case.
Under the sentence handed down, Fletcher must
serve two days' detention in the Bonner County
Juvenile Detention Center, paying $110 per day,
and serve 320 hours, 40 eight-hour days, of
community service. His parents, the judge said,
will have to take time off to get him to and
from scheduled work days. They must both also
accompany him to a series of meetings with
agencies affected by his two calls; Boundary
County Sheriff Greg Sprungl, Bonners Ferry
Police Chief Steve Benkula, the Bonners Ferry
City Council, Boundary County Commissioners and
the principal of each school disrupted by the
calls.
He must also pay $232 court costs, and serve
three year's supervised probation, during which
he must abide by a long list of restrictions and
be subject to visitation at any time.
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