Crime & Safety

Three East Students Arrested in Ruckus; Mother of One Throws a Fit

Teenager's mom shows up and causes more trouble as school staff tries to get to the bottom of threatened fight.

Three students, including one who had been , were arrested Tuesday for disorderly conduct at the school.

According to police reports:

At 7:58 a.m., two Milwaukee boys 16 and 15 years old, and one 14-year-old Wauwatosa boy, were arrested after threatening each other and causing a disturbance just outside the school office.

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The 16-year-old had entered the school office first thing in the morning, talking loudly on his cell phone and using profanity, saying he was going to kill someone. He was told to quiet down and watch his language, but he ignored the advice, continued to swear, and then began to leave the office.

An assistant principal tried to stop him but he ignored her and entered the learning center outside the office, where two other students were waiting for him.

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The associate principal arrived to find the 16-year-old and the 15-year-old “squared up” to fight, and he tried to separate them. The 14-year-old then attacked the 16-year-old and was restrained with difficulty by the associate principal.

It took three adults to take the 14-year-old to the floor and restrain him. The Wauwatosa Police school resource officer handcuffed him there, still kicking and shouting.

The other two boys did calm down and return to the office after being separated by the assistant principal. The 15-year-old went to her office, and he was handcuffed and taken into custody without incident.

The 16-year-old, however, had left the office and went to another room in the school, where his mother showed up along with school staff members.

A teacher who was present said that a staff member was taking notes, and the boy's mother grabbed them from him and tore them up, saying her son “did not make a statement, you can’t prove what he said to you.”

The teacher said she then upbraided police and school personnel, saying they never did anything for her. She pounded her fists on the table in front of her son, he said, yelling, “Don’t tell them anything, I told you before, do not talk to them ever, do not say a thing, keep your mouth shut.”

The police officer told her that the staff member would just rewrite his notes from memory, and she replied loudly that she would be calling the director of student services. She then told her son to stand up and that they were leaving. She became quite angry, the teacher said, when told her son was being arrested, saying he was the victim and that her kids were always being picked on.

Her son was then handcuffed and taken to the police station, where he refused to make a statement.

The 15-year-old admitted that he planned to fight the 16-year-old from the moment he walked into the school, and the 14-year-old said he was ready to back him up.

All three are familiar names to police. The 15-year-old had been arrested twice recently, once for bicycle theft and once for armed robbery.

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