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2 Children Reach Plea Deals In Plot To Harm Teacher:

Remember the third graders from Georgia who allegedly plotted to attack their teacher a few months ago? Of course you do. They were the ones from Center Elementary School in Waycross who each had their own individual tasks in the plot. You should remember it, everyone went apeshit over it in one way or another when it happened.

Anyway two of the three alleged ringleaders accepted plea deals. Details of the plea were undisclosed.

However the third suspect's parents refuse to take a plea deal. They say their child is innocent and what to make sure the child has a clean record. And to make sure their precious snowflake has clean record they brought in 'family representative' and NAACP representative Rev. Thomas Bailey.

"I'm definitely not happy with what's going on. I'm not happy with the entire process from start to finish and how this whole thing occurred and how it started in the school system and quickly it got to the law enforcement," said Bailey.

If I didn't know any better I'd say it sounds like someone is trying to play the race card.

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Columbine-Style Attack Plotter Sent To Prison:
The suspect in the plot to attack Newington High School in Connecticut was sentenced yesterday. Frank Fechteler was given a sentence of 12 years behind bars that will be suspended after 3 and 5 years probation.

The article goes into detail about how Fechteler and his attorney talk about how it was "the old Frank" that was capable of crimes like this but "the new Frank" is much different. On the stand Fechteler even said he'll never commit another crime again.

That kind of reminds me about the movie Strangeland when Dee Snider's character claims that he's been rehabilitated only to kill again.

New Frank and old Frank are the same Frank in my opinion.

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Teen admits to school attack scare:
One of the suspects accused in the plot to attack Belvidere High School in New Jersey. 17-year-old Joseph Pastusek II pleaded guilty to charges of false public alarm and failure to adjust.

Failure to adjust is a crime? If that's the case I know at least one commenter here that should have been arrested a long time ago.

Jokes aside Pastusek was given 3 years probation and 3 months in a residential facility that the judge won't call juvenile detention or medical facility. So what, are they putting him up in his own condo?

So no jail time or psychiatric treatment. That's just wonderful. Another slap on the wrists. A killer isn't scared about violating probation if his mind is made up.

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Mesa teen sentenced for plan to hold his classroom hostage:
15-year-old Brent Clark was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison with 9 months served for plotting to hold his class at Powell Junior High hostage and holding a girl at knifepoint.

On March 23, 2007, the Powell Junior High School student packed his backpack with a gun, 3 knives, and latex gloves with the apparent intent to hold his classroom hostage and be killed by police, referred to as "suicide by cop."

Clark was originally charged with terrorism which could have kept him in prison for 40 years. The plea dropped that charge. Clark's mother feels they were blackmailed into the plea.

"We were being blackmailed," said Donette Reid, Clark's mom. "That terrorism charge was blackmail."

His mom fears that his childhood is gone and his experience in prison will take his adulthood too.

"My heart is broken." she said through tears. "They just took my heart."

I think his childhood was gone the moment he held that girl at knifepoint. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Ms. Reid shortly.

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Teen in Connetquot school plot avoids jail:
17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.

Under the plea McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.

McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.

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Teen accused in Columbine-style plot pleads guilty:
Russell James Frantom has pleaded guilty to a to a juvenile count of conspiracy to commit murder. As you may know Frantom was arrested for plotting an attack against Penn High School in Indiana. Frantom could be held until his 21st birthday.

Frantom's mom tried to get him released into her custody but the judge was having none of that.

She told Brueseke the teen had moved out of her house after an argument and first moved in with her father, then stayed with his uncle after her father died.

She said she was unaware he had illegal snakes or had been spending so much time on the computer.

"A lot of things were going on I didn't know about," she said.

"So a little too much freedom and lack of supervision," Brueseke asked.

"Way too much," the mother replied.

When did parents give up control?

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SC teen accused in school bomb plot pleads not guilty:
Ryan Schallenberger was in court today and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Schallenberger has a three count federal indictment against him of receiving an explosive, attempting to destroy property by explosive and possessing an unregistered destructive device.

Schallenberger allegedly plotted to set off explosives at Chesterfield High School in South Carolina. He received a delivery of the infamous fertilizer/explosive ammonium nitrate in the mail.

Schallenberger is looking at a max of 40 years in federal prison.

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Teen accused of hiring a hitman: 'I'm sorry':
17-year-old Thomas Ramirez of Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena, TX is under arrest for trying to hire a hitman to kill his girlfriend's best friend. It seems that the friend didn't care too much for Ramirez. So Ramirez thinks that the most sane and rational thing to do is hire a hitman to rub out the friend. Of course the first person he asked was a classmate. In turn that classmate went to police. Then an undercover officer posed as some one willing to kill the girl for $150 and drugs which of course led to Ramirez's arrest.

Not surprisingly the Ramirez family thinks this isn't a big deal.

His father admits that Ramirez is "a good kid who makes stupid decisions," and that sometimes, "he doesn't think."

A good kid who makes stupid decisions is a kid that knocks up his girlfriend and not a kid who hires someone to kill a girl.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview with 11 News hours after his court appearance, Ramirez apologized for his actions and while not admitting guilt, said that he "never wanted anyone to die."

That may just be the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. You don't hire a hitman to have him not kill people. It's kind of what they do.

Ramirez is looking at life behind bars on solicitation of murder charges.

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Boy Who Plotted To Kill Classmates Avoids Any Time Behind Bars:
14-year-old Austin Mohr accepted a plea deal that would keep him from spending any time behind bars.

Mohr, who stood accused of plotting an attack against DeLand Middle School, pleaded no contest to a charge of attempted threat to discharge a destructive device on school property. The original charges were conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to discharge firearm on school property.

The plea allows Mohr to escape any prison time. The only punishment Mohr received was 5 years probation and the court is trying to act like it's worse than jail...

The judge could end Mohr's probation at any time, but state attorneys defended any suggestion that the boy was getting off easy.

"That's not true, he is on probation for the next five years," explained Asst. State Attorney Amy Walker. "The court, as the judge said, he will have jurisdiction over this young man until he's 19 years old. That's the maximum allowable time a judge would have in any criminal case involving a juvenile."

So basically if he tries to plot again then he'll go to jail. I'm sure the students and parents of DeLand are feeling not very secure tonight.

Let's hear from Mohr himself...

"I am lucky that I'm not an older age or I would be in prison for five years," he said.

Notice he didn't say that he regretted what he did or that he was sorry. He's just thankful that he wasn't older.

To make matters even worse Mohr's attorney says probation could be dropped after only a year.

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"I Wanna Break The Current Shooting Record":
The Smoking Gun has pictures of the search warrant affidavit used to seize evidence from Lee Billi. It also lists evidence that was seized from his MySpace pal Russell Frantom.

The page that particularly drew my attention was this one that has some of Russell Frantom's ramblings from his journal. Typical ravings from a mutant.

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Boy wrote of desire to kill many at Indiana school:
The teen accused in the plot against Penn High School, Russell Frantom, wrote in his notebook that he wanted instant recognition for breaking the "school shooting record".

"I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition. The only thing that stops me is the fact of being put in jail forever, or having to kill myself, or getting killed by an officer. I could kill anyone without feeling sorry because society sucks!!!"

According to the article he started having these kinds of violent thoughts after his girlfriend broke up with him.

Just like every shooter and would be shooter before him he's a selfish prick with the emotional stability of a marshmallow and an inflated sense of entitlement. When parents and educators coddle kids like Frantom they end up believing that nothing bad is ever supposed to happen to them. When it finally does this the result.

Life is hard and it's not fair, deal with it.

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Student who brought weapons to school wants out of detention:
If you've been following this site for a while you may remember the story of Robin Kittrell. He was the teen from Whitewater High School in Georgia who brought a cache of weapons to school on the first day of classes allegedly to prevent a Columbine-line situation from happening.

The weapons cache consisted of...

...a 4-inch switchblade knife discovered in Kittrell's front jeans pocket. Among the weapons were a a Colt .38 Officer's Model revolver, a Colt semi-automatic 22 pistol, an M1 30 caliber carbine rifle, a 22 caliber long-range rifle, a Ninja-style sword, flex-cuffs, and two speedloaders for the revolvers.

He pleaded guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced to 10 years which consists of boot camp, two years in juvenile detention, one year of intensive probation and the rest on normal probation.

Kittrell's attorney is requesting an early release for him and to be treated as a first offender. First offender status would allow Kittrell to have his record cleared after completion of his sentence.

The prosecution opposes both requests.

The judge will rule on the requests once Kittrell himself appears in court.

As much as I feel for the kid he shouldn't be released until he at leasts completes any psychological counseling that the court ordered.

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SC teen indicted on 3 federal charges in bomb plot:
Ryan Schallenberger has been indicted on three federal charges. However the most severe charge of possessing a weapon of mass destruction has been dropped. That charge could have kept Schallenberger in jail for life. The other 3 charges could keep him in jail for 40 years.

The federal grand jury indicted Schallenberger for receiving and attempting to receive an explosive, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; attempting to damage and destroy real property by explosive, which carries five to 20 years in prison; and possessing an unregistered destructive device, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars.

Schallenberger had ammonium nitrate delivered to his house in an alleged plot to attack Chesterfield High School in South Carolina.

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Ohio man pleads not guilty in school attack plot:
Accused school shooting plotter and child porn lover, Lee Billi, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

As I'm sure you know the 33-year-old Billi was arrested for conspiring to commit mass shootings in two different locations with 16-year-old Russell Frantom. It was also discovered that Billi had a plethora of child pron on his some computer. Enough to keep him behind bars for possibly 325 years.

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Man Accused of School Shooting Plot Now Faces Child Porn Charges:
Back when 33-year-old Lee Billi was first arrested for conspiring to attack schools along with 16-year-old Russell Frantom of Penn High School in Indiana I theorized that maybe their friendship over MySpace wasn't just because of their mutual admiration of Columbine. I in inferred that maybe Billi was grooming Frantom for something even more inappropriate. As it turns out I may have been right.

A search of Billi's computer by investigators has turned up a cache of child pornography.

As a result, Billi now faces 38 counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving minors.

Now Billi could be looking at a max of 325 years behind bars.

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TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

3rd graders take plea

Newington suspect sentenced

Bevidere suspect sentenced

Brent Clark sentenced

Second fry cook sentenced

Penn High plotter pleads guilty

Ryan Schallenberger pleads not guilty

17-year-old hires hitman

Austin Mohr avoids jail

The Smoking Gun on Lee Billi and Russel Frantom

Instant Recognition

Robin Kittrell wants early release

Schallenberger indicted

Billi enters plea

Lee Billi: Mutant and Pedophile