5 HELD IN SCHOOL VANDALISM.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Four Lancaster teen-agers and a 21-year-old man were arrested Friday morning after six Park View Middle School classrooms were vandalized and spray-painted with racial slurs. The vandals smashed computer terminals, overturned desks, scattered papers and books, uprooted potted pot·ted adj. 1. a. Placed in a pot. b. Grown in a pot: many potted plants in the study. 2. Preserved in a pot, can, or jar. 3. Slang a. plants, and spray-painted walls with swastikas and racial slurs inside the bungalow classrooms, causing at least $20,000 damage, officials said. ``This was a disgrace,'' said Kay Wrye, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of personnel for the Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. sheriff's officials, a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested shortly after 4:30 a.m. Friday after deputies responding to a burglary alarm spotted the pair leaving the school grounds at 818 W. Ave. J. Later that day, deputies arrested two Lancaster teens, ages 15 and 16, who were suspected of being involved in an earlier burglary at Park View, along with a 21-year-old transient named Cassidy Fischer. Fischer was being held at the Lancaster sheriff's station in lieu of $10,000 bail on suspicion of receiving stolen property, and the boys were being held at Challenger Memorial Youth Center and Sylmar Juvenile Hall. Most of the damaged classrooms were for special education students, school officials said. Their teachers and other school staff spent time Friday talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to the students about the damage. ``Something like this can have a major impact on them,'' Wrye said. ``They already have a low self-image, and for someone to destroy what's theirs is highly upsetting. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if (the suspects) knew what rooms they were destroying, or if they were just being mischievous.'' Officials said the suspects may be part of a burglary ring that targeted elementary and junior high schools. The pair arrested fleeing the school admitted to committing five burglaries in the past two weeks, though the latest break-in was the only one to involve vandalism, sheriff's Lt. Ron Shreves said. ``I'm extremely disappointed and hope they are prosecuted to the fullest,'' Wrye said. ``They have to pay for their crime. I'm not sympathetic to them at all, regardless of their excuse.'' Officials credited the quick additional arrests to Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. liaison Deputy Steve Owen For other persons named Steve Owen, see Steve Owen (disambiguation). Steven Richard "Steve" Owen was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Martin Kemp. , who had been investigating the recent burglaries. The 17-year-old and 14-year-old are being held on suspicion of burglary, felony vandalism and committing a hate crime. The 15-year-old and 16-year-old are being held on suspicion of burglary. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--ran in SAC and AV editions--color in AV) Park View Middle School Principal Bob Porter surveys damage to one of six classrooms trashed trashed adj. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Our Living Language Expressions for intoxication are among those that best showcase the creativity of slang. by vandals early Friday morning. (2--ran in SAC and AV editions--color in AV) Vandals smashed computers, overturned desks and spray-painted walls with swastikas and racial slurs, causing at least $20,000 damage, sheriff's officials said. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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