Homework at crime scene leads to arrest at high school
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- They cut class at Woonsocket High School to break into a house -- but it's the homework that tripped them up. Two 15-year-old boys skipped out of their parenting class early Monday afternoon and broke into a house a half-mile away from the school, said Lt. Eugene Jalette. After stealing some game systems, Jalette said, the boys grabbed their backpacks and headed back to school -- but one of them dropped his homework. When Officers Joshua Smith and Brien Godin responded to 52 Hillsdale Ave. for the break-in, the officers noticed the homework near the basement window where the youths had broken in, Jalette said. The homework didn't belong to the homeowner -- or anyone he knew -- but the boy's name on the paperwork was familiar to the officers, Jalette said. By the end of the school day, the officers were at the principal's office, where they arrested the two boys and also recovered the stolen items, Jalette said. The boys were charged with breaking and entering and released to the custody of their parents. Jalette said the officers are investigating whether the boys were involved in more than a dozen break-ins in that area that have occurred since September. 
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hmm...parenting class? One has to wonder if that a precautionary or reactionary class? We pay for it.
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Life imitates art. In "The Big Lebowski", a high school student takes The Dude's car out for a joyride, but accidently leaves his homework assignment in the car. This allows The Dude and Walter to track down the young car thief.
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"but the boy's name on the paperwork was familiar to the officers--" This statement highlights the failure of our justice system. My wife's car was vandalized in a RI Hospital parking lot by boys whose names were "familiar to the officers--" The end result was that we had to pay for the damage. Time to stop the coddling these criminals and start throwing there rear ends in jail.
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The problem is with family court, it is a joke. The judges just keep sending the little criminals back on the street to continue their little life of crime. Family Court is a big joke and the juvenile deliquents know it. How can the school not know when someone leaves, without signing out??? Don't they have any accountability at the school??
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They don't know when they leave because there are about 20 different doors they can exit thru...don't be so naive. Are they supposed to take the school on a field trip to go look for them? They can't...gotta keep those test scores up.
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