PLEAS ENTERED IN SCHOOL HIT PLAN TEENAGER IS ACCUSED OF PLOTTING BOMBING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - One of two former Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). students charged with planning a Columbine-style attack at the school pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy and possessing bomb-making ingredients. Johnny Alvarez Casas, 17, was charged as an adult in Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Superior Court after he was found unfit unfit not properly prepared, e.g. physically incapable of performing hard work as in racing, because of lack of training. Said also of food prepared unhygienically. unfit for human consumption to be tried as a juvenile after an all-day Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial hearing last week. Casas was held without bail and was scheduled to appear April 21 for a preliminary hearing on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and possession of ingredients to make a destructive device A destructive device is a firearm or explosive device that, in the United States, is regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. Examples of destructive devices are grenades, and firearms with a bore over one half of an inch, including some semi-automatic shotguns. for what prosecutors say was his part in planning the attack for Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. this year at the campus. A 16-year-old co-defendant was ordered last month to be tried as a juvenile. He was 15 when the two were arrested in December, and state law allows only those 16 and over at the time of an offense to be tried as adults. The younger boy, who remained in custody, is set to go to trial next week in Lancaster Juvenile Court. The younger boy has denied charges of conspiracy to commit murder and making criminal threats. The boys, who sheriff's deputies said dressed in Goth style characterized by black clothing and nail polish, said they felt ostracized at Quartz Hill High and wanted to get revenge in a Valentine's Day attack, deputies said. Both had transferred to other schools. Deputies said the teens had acquired bomb-making instructions off the Internet and detonated practice bombs in the desert. The boys had been on probation in connection with a 2003 assault in which a 14-year-old boy was sodomized with a metal rod, deputies said. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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