Two mothers in east-central Florida turned their sons in to police on criminal charges of vandalizing an elementary school library and causing at least $50,000 in damage.
Felix Cohen Romero, 12, and Bentley Ryan Wehrly, 13, are charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of trespassing on school grounds, criminal mischief and theft, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a fire alarm sounding overnight Sunday at Friendship Elementary School in Deltona, where they found the library vandalized and its glass door shattered.
The boys’ mothers turned them in and the suspects subsequently confessed, the sheriff’s office said. They said they vandalized the library out of boredom, deputies told Orlando’s WKMG-TV.
“I’ve got to give the moms credit. They called us, they didn’t tell the kids we were coming, and when they were questioned, they confessed to what they did. One of them then went up to the bedroom and got out some items that were stolen from the school — a radio and some digital cameras — and turned them over to us,” Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood told WKMG-TV.
The sheriff’s office did not say whether either boy is or was a student at the school.
