Quoted: I think what gets all y'alls blood boilin is the line: A 16-year-old boy was arrested What I mean is.. Was the kid actually "arrested" or was he contacted by the police and maybe voluntarily went "downtown" to have a talk? Newspaper writers are not legal experts and often use the wrong language to tell their stories...
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Yes he was arrested. If he was my son and he posted pics of my guns on myspace.com the charges against him would be the least of his problems.
www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3537224In Jefferson County, student Robbie Hill is being held at Mount View Detention Center and is charged with three misdemeanor counts of a juvenile in possession of a handgun, according to Pam Russell, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County district attorney's office.
Jefferson County deputies searched Hill's home Feb. 10 after receiving a tip from the teen's school
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about pictures Hill posted of himself holding handguns.
"We believe the weapons were family weapons that he had access to," said Jim Shires, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office spokesman.
Hill was suspended from Evergreen High School on Feb. 10 when photographs and comments posted on his personal profile on MySpace.com circulated throughout the school community, said Jefferson County school district spokesman Rick Kaufman.
Hill is the second student to face scrutiny recently for content published on MySpace.com.
Bryan Lopez, 16, was suspended from Littleton High School for comments posted about the school Feb. 19 on the website.
His suspension was cut short because the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit over First Amendment rights and reached an agreement with the district to allow him to return to classes.