A teen accused of making a threat against the Simon Youth Academy, an Edinburgh school for at-risk students, is being allowed off electronic monitoring pending an upcoming fact-finding hearing in Bartholomew Juvenile Court.
The 16-year-old from Edinburgh appeared Wednesday with his mother and his attorney, Michael DeArmitt, before Magistrate Heather Mollo at the Bartholomew County Courthouse.
Mollo said she was pleased to hear that the teen had been fully cooperative, respectful and had not had any issues with county juvenile probation officials since his April hearing in juvenile court.
Based on that report, and the agreement among the defense, prosecution and the probation department, the teen was allowed to have his required security monitoring lowered from house arrest with electronic monitoring to home supervision.
The juvenile will have to follow a schedule set up in collaboration with juvenile probation officers as part of the home supervision status, the judge said.
The teen’s fact-finding hearing, the equivalent of a trial in adult court, was set for 1:30 p.m. July 6 in juvenile court.
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