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| Juvenile center fight under investigation |
| By Bradenton Herald |
| Published: 03/14/2005 |
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Manatee County (Fla.) Sheriff's deputies took a 14-year-old boy into custody on a battery charge last Thursday morning after a fight broke out at a juvenile detention facility. The state attorney's office will determine whether to file a similar charge against another 14-year-old after investigators say the two fought with a 15-year-old at the Manatee Adolescent Center. Sheriff's deputies and paramedics were called at 7 a.m. last Thursday to the facility, at 1324 37th Ave. E. Inside, they found the 15-year-old lying on the floor with minor bleeding around the nose, Manatee Emergency Medical Services spokesman Capt. Larry Leinhauser said. Paramedics airlifted the teenager to All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg for treatment after he seemed to be lapsing into a "quasi-seizure," according to Leinhauser. Officials and sheriff's deputies determined the teenager was faking the attack and did not exhibit the slow recovery reactions someone who has a seizure usually displays. "I don't know what will happen now since he wasn't seriously injured," Manatee County Sheriff's spokesman Dave Bristow said. "He acted like he was having a seizure, but apparently he's done it before." The case remains under investigation. Paramedics didn't want to take a chance and, because the teenager was injured, decided to call out the $3,000 bayflight to St. Petersburg. "We take all injuries seriously," Leinhauser said. "You can't take that chance." |
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