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DA: Teen with violent record ordered held without bail after being caught with loaded gun at West Roxbury High

A Roxbury 14-year-old who was on probation for one beating and robbery and awaiting trial for another similar case, was arrested this morning after alert workers at the West Roxbury Education Complex spotted him trying to sneak in a side entrance, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

When the workers stopped the teen, not named because of his age, they found a gun on him, prosecutors said, specifically, a Smith & Wesson .38 loaded with five rounds of ammunition.

At his arraignment this morning in West Roxbury District Court, a judge ordered him held without bail pending a "dangerousness" hearing on Friday. If prosecutors can convince a judge then that the kid poses an immediate threat to the community, he can be held without bail for 90 days.

The DA's office reports the kid was out on $100 bail - reduced by Judge Leslie Harris from $1,000 - for "a December 2010 unarmed robbery in which the defendant and several others surrounded and beat another teen in Mattapan."

That comes after he was given probation after being found "delinquent" for beating and robbing another person in 2010. In that case, prosecutors asked he be held in DYS custody until he turned 18; Judge Peter Coyn imposed 18 months' probation.

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becuase that's what idjits like O-FISH-L are arguing about the heroine drug dealer at occupy Boston. It's the guilt by association tactic conservatives are so inclined to trot out. Is anyone buying the argument that Westie High is full of bad kids who pack heat and should be suspended or just the one we know of?

And what if the kid who was busted for packing heat has a child? Does that make the whole story worse, bad enough to shut down the school?

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I bet it wasn't a White kid

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you don't know and shouldn't guess.

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If only we could make crud like this vanish.

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Only if we could bring back neighborhood schools. This bonehead wouldn't even be in West Roxbury. Let alone know where West Roxbury is!

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How do you get from conjecture ('I bet') to truth?

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Yeah, because only white people live in West Roxbury, and only people of color commit crimes, and people of color don't know how to walk or drive or take a bus to places where they don't live.

I assume from your comments that you're white. Therefore, I'm going to surmise that white people are stupid and don't understand logic. And don't get out much.

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Why don't you just shut up. Maybe you can try to reach out to this young thug and offer your services " "do you take insurance?"
maybe u can save him, along with the rest of the world? You douche. My views, my opinion, my right. Pound sand!!!

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Then again, because you WON'T shut up, at least we know you are a pathetic fucking racist because you can't seem to make a single comment here that isn't so totally obviously fucking racist that it reeks of white sheets and burnt crosses.

So just keep running your fat racist pie-hole. It makes it all to easy to know who to put against the wall when the revolution comes.

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So racists get executed when you're running things, Swirly?
How tolerant.

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West Roxbury is a tight nit neighborhood! Neighborhood school is the way it should be.

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A few doses of pesticide are good for tight nits ... and a lot of combing out.

As for "tight nit neighborhood" then maybe they should form their own municipality. Otherwise, deal with being part of a city, already and don't shelter your children from the reality they will have to face when they enter the job market - as West Roxbury can't supply enough of those to shelter its adults from reality, too.

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i dont know if its just a boston thing or not but when i was growing up the word bonehead was a racial slur.it was essentially using the N word without using the N word. i dont usually side with eeka on anything but she might be dead on about billings.

so, where are you from billings?

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It was what the older guys used for the N-word when they might be overheard.

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are why West Roxbury gets its racist reputation and why I moved out long ago. It's still part of the city. If you want to secede and build a wall around your neighborhood, go do it. But for now, you have all the problems and benefits of being a Boston resident.

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To (symbolically) offset all the schmucks who uprate his trash talk.

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...and every other forced indoctrination facility that the state runs.

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Actually, just the opposite, Anonymous 3:16. The students, at least those below the dropout age, are legally required to be in school. They are complying with the attendance law, even if one or more of them are breaking other laws. Conversely, the campers at Obamaville are not required to be there. Worse, they are without benefit of permit, breaking the law by their very presence, Mayor Menino's decision to place political expediency ahead of enforcement notwithstanding.

Likewise, the theory is that most of the West Roxbury students might learn a thing or two at school and become productive members of society. For most of the Occupy protesters, the notion of being a productive member of society is anathema to the cause.

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Great job by the unarmed school police . They have the toughest police job in the city and never get any credit.

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The police handled this well, but it sound like the rest of the community didn't. Why is a kid who has already committed crimes at such a young age not in a therapeutic school getting appropriate services?

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we have all these laws against carrying firearms.

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