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Two teens arrested for burglaries
Published Friday, June 26, 2009
RIDGECREST — Two local teens were arrested following an alleged weekend burglary free-for-all at three locations, including a church, according to a statement from the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The 14-year-old boys were charged with two counts simple burglary, one count aggravated burglary, one count property damage, two counts felony property damage and criminal trespassing.
Investigators believe the two started their crime spree Friday night at the Ridgecrest Baptist Church and the Handi-Pak convenience store, the statement said.
The two allegedly entered the church by using a concrete block to break a rear window, and allegedly moved an empty safe from the secretary’s office to another location in the church.
The pair also allegedly stole keys from the pastor’s office and sprayed a fire extinguisher inside the church’s fellowship hall.
The spraying of the fire extinguisher reportedly included the inside of the church’s refrigerator.
A window in the church van was also broken.
Handi-Pak employees reportedly found the store’s windows shattered Saturday morning, and when Concordia Waterworks No. 2 employees arrived at work Monday they found the building vandalized.
The damage to the waterworks building included three broken windows, two broken doors, a toilet and a water fountain torn from their moorings and shelving — along with its contents — knocked to the floor.
The building’s sheet rock was damaged by the running water, and a fire had reportedly been set on the concrete floor.
Ridgecrest Baptist Church members staked out the building Saturday afternoon, and the two teens allegedly returned to the church. One of the teens was reportedly carrying a gun.
When they realized the church members were there, one of the teens fled the scene, but the other waited until deputies arrived.
Investigators believe the Saturday afternoon incident was the third time for the teens to enter the church, the statement said.
Damage to the waterworks building and at the church is estimated to be in the thousands of dollars.
Comments
Posted by stateofnatchez (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 12:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds like some overprivileged punk kids. Parents should be locked up over this.
Posted by VHSMOM (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 12:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
teenagers need to grow up these days. They are alway getting into trouble. When they need to be worry about getting there education.
Posted by mslugirl (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 5:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This happened Friday and Saturday of last week, was in the Concordia Sentinel(which comes out only once a week) on Wednesday, and is just now in ND. Also, the names of those arrested in the raids in Concordia Parish last week were published in the Sentinel. Please, ND, report the news when it happens. The public needs to know about these things when they happen.
Posted by allgood (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 7:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Stateofnatchez, the person responsible here is the ones that took most rights from parents being able to raise there children the old fashion way, should be locked up....The fish stinks from the head down.... Think about it.. Just like Freedom of Speech,what happened to that?
Posted by Tbo (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 8:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
And once again the question rages on WHERE ARE THE PARENTS? Allgood, I'm appreciative of your opinions but lets get real AINT and let me reiterate AINT nobody took any rights from parents to raise their kids. Yes, we do have laws to protect kids from being possible victims in abusive situations. However, many times there are so many young parents, and just parents who are not willing to grow up themselves and take responsibility for the miracle they brought into the world. A child is just like a sprouting seed. In order to make that seed grow that child needs love, discipline, and for the parent to plant good morals. I can clearly see the homes are not church-going because if they were they would have too much respect to disrespect the house of God. It seems that in some cases especially with this new generation of parents the only ones actively trying to raise the children are the schools, whichare dumped on all the time why parents like these go unchecked. And who knows maybe this is not the scenario of the home but either way social services needs to go in and see just what is going on and make these parents accountable. I'm more fingerpointing at the parents than the kids because they still are minors.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We've all seen, in the news, parents being video taped spanking a child in public and then being arrested for child abuse.<<<I think this is what allgood was talking about.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I wonder why those boys wanted to be so destructive? The parents should be fined for the damage to the properties. The boys will probably just be put on probation and not allowed to hang out with each other.
Posted by momof1 (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
There were 4 boys involved in this and they were caught the THIRD time they came back to the church. Members of the church cleaned up Saturday morning after the first round, left just after lunch, and the boys came back during the afternoon. The 2nd breakin was discovered early Saturday evening, so that's when the church members decided to stake out the church that night.
"When they realized the church members were there, one of the teens fled the scene, but the other waited until deputies arrived" The other did not "wait" until deputies arrived. He was detained by one of the brave men of the church. The other was picked up later that night and they ultimately ratted out the other 2 involved.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They didn't steal anything, just destroyed property?
Posted by momof1 (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They did steal a few items but it appears that they were coming back for more after they had scoped out the place. They spent most of their time trying to break into a coke machine & a safe but were unsuccessful.
Posted by Tbo (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I have seen the various cases where parents are questioned about their use of corporal punishment. First common sense should dictate there is a time and place for anything. If this was my choice of punishment it would be done sparingly and behind closed doors. I don't think you should hit your child for every little boo-boo he or she does but reserve that one for something major. I know parents who do not or rarely use coporal punishment. The parents I'm frowning on are those who set immoral examples in front of their kids. As unrealistic as it sounds their are actually parents who allow their kids to be knowledgable of their alcohol, drug, and immoral bedroom practices. There are parents who send their kids to everyone's house without knowing what the heck is going on in the house.( they just dont want to be bothered) Also, lets not leave out the club hoppers to busy trying to remain a kid themselves to raise a kid. I wish there was mandatory parenting courses for people with kids like these. I do know kids will be kids but when you see things this extreme I can only question the parents and their abillity to raise a child
Posted by momof1 (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I understand making the parents pay to a certain degree but the kids don't learn a thing when mommy & daddy are the ones that are punished. Kids need to be the ones "paying" for what they have done. And while they may be too young to get a job and actually pay for the damages done, they can certainly be made to do community service. They should be the ones cleaning up the messes, painting over the graffiti, etc. They are not going to really see the affects of what they have done unless they are involved in making it right.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Kids will be kids, and looking back, I can think of some kids from pretty decent church going families who did some really weird stuff, preachers' kids even. I'll spare you the details.
Let's just hope that these kids will learn a good lesson by being arrested, jailed, and given a punishment. Sometimes that's enough to set their minds straight.
Tbo, I do agree that their should be parenting classes, but I don't think that it would make much difference whether or not the parent "allows" the child to be knowledgable of their own immoral behaviors should the child find out about those behaviors.
Posted by dovechase (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 10:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
These two buildings are fairly far apart. They are not within walking distance. How did these kids get from one to the other? Who provided the transportation?
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 10:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
momof1, I agree that the kids should be punished, but the parents will have to be fined for the property damages so those things can be replaced like broken windows, broken toilet, torn out water fountain, whatever the water damaged, etc. Could be a lot of money.
Did the store not have any burgular alarm?
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 10:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tbo what about all those little children whose only offense was going to church and were taken advantage of by priest or preachers who when found out about were simply sent somewhere else to abuse more trusting children? No immoral parenting there, just trusting people.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 10:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The kids should be drug tested and required to speak with a counsellor or psycologist. I don't know if that is done manditorily when minors are arrested or not, but there is some reason those kids are behaving so destructively, more than just bordeom from not having anything to do on a Friday night.
Posted by NtzMom55 (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 11:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Assign the boys to serve X hours of yard service for that church. Hand them some scissors and have them edge the sidewalks with it. That would be a good start. Have their parents there to observe them.
Posted by shooshoo (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 9:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
pretty bad when somebody tries to steal a toilet,
did they use it first?
Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on June 26, 2009 at 10:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
They don,t need to be tested. They are just mean and have no respect. Why test them? They are doing what they do because they can,society lets this continue unpunished except for hand slaps.
Posted by happyreader (anonymous) on June 27, 2009 at 8:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
time4change..."Kids will be kids"???
If they had torched the church and business, would they have just been kids being kids? I mean, there's a certain amount of moral outrage at a church being burned - but if it's just desecrated, well then that's just the act of mischievous children? I don't think so. They didn't just steal stuff - and THAT would be bad enough - they made a concerted effort to destroy whatever they could. In addition to well-earned jail time, I hope they spend some much-needed time on a psychiatrist's couch. Thank heavens the officers caught them approaching the church before they got to use their gun.
So young. So sad.
Posted by time4change (anonymous) on June 27, 2009 at 9:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
happyreader, I wasn't trying to say that I thought the kids behavior was ok, but that their behavior may not have necessarily had anything to do with how their parents had raised them, and my comment was in response to what another person had commented. I've known kids who had wonderful parents and still got messed up in some pretty stupid behaviors. Attending church regularly doesn't always keep a child from doing foolish things, nor does having a parent in law enforcement. I too am glad they got caught before doing any further damage or using their gun.
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