Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School students and staff were evacuated last week when a fire alarm sounded, but now a 15-year-old Putnam Valley student is in trouble for pulling that fire alarm without a real emergency, Yorktown police said.
The boy, whose name police did not release, was charged with juvenile delinquency. The underlying charge, had he been an adult, would have been a third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor.
Police responded to the middle school on Old Crompond Road on Tuesday, May 28 at about 1:30 p.m. When Lake Mohegan firefighters and Yorktown police officers determined there was no fire, they alloweed students and staff to return inside the building.
Lakeland school officials and school resource officer Angel Garcia conducted an investigation and determined the 15-year-old student had pulled the alarm, police said.
He appeared at police headquarters on May 30 and was scheduled to appear at the Department of Probation on June 5. The boy was then released to a parent.
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