Boys jailed after rocks from bus hit car

Martin E. Comas is reporting in the Sentinel...

TAVARES -- The stepfather of a fifth-grader said Lake County deputy sheriffs went "overboard" Thursday when they arrested his stepson and another boy on charges of throwing rocks out of a Lake County School bus window and hitting a passing car.

The 11-year-old boy and a 10-year-old friend, both students at Minneola Elementary School, were arrested on charges of throwing deadly missiles into vehicles and criminal mischief over $1,000, both felonies, according to sheriff reports.

They were first placed in the Lake County Jail without bail and then transferred to a juvenile detention facility in Ocala, sheriff's officials said. They are scheduled to appear before a Lake County judge today in Tavares.

"They're making an example of him," the older boy's stepfather said. "He's only 11; he doesn't know the consequences. He's probably scared to death right now."

The cops did the right thing! Daddy's part of the problem he's acting as an apologist for junior. If you want to send a clear message to other students that this type of behavior won't be tolerated you throw the book at the vandals. Someone could have been seriously injured or killed.