On very short notice (noon), I went to a 2:30 PM Nov. 30 detention hearing at Pima County Juvenile Court Center for a 13 year old boy accused of Class 4 felony criminal damage.
The underlying case involves more than 1,000 separate tags. The boy was
arrested the day before by TPD and spent the night in detention (not doing
graffiti with his crew). The boy has been most active on the Southside of Tucson.
The judge, on advice from the probation officer and prosecutor, decided to keep the boy in custody until a pretrial hearing next week. The alternate to continued detention was a monitoring device. The device was deemed too intrusive for his mother and the boy was not showing any willingness to respond to her attempts to control his behavior. So he remains in detention. The prosecutor says the judge next week will likely set him for another pretrial hearing and eventually a trial in several months. I'm told that the restitution calculation involves nearly $17,000 worth of damage.
The judge, on advice from the probation officer and prosecutor, decided to keep the boy in custody until a pretrial hearing next week. The alternate to continued detention was a monitoring device. The device was deemed too intrusive for his mother and the boy was not showing any willingness to respond to her attempts to control his behavior. So he remains in detention. The prosecutor says the judge next week will likely set him for another pretrial hearing and eventually a trial in several months. I'm told that the restitution calculation involves nearly $17,000 worth of damage.
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