Teens confess to causing $40,000 in damages to school

The Daniel Boone High School students ‘ ages 14, 16 and 17 ‘ caused extensive damage inside Boones Creek Middle School on Sunday in what one boy told police was a search for money.

‘They busted out the glass trophy case inside the school. They busted out interior and exterior windows, kicked in doors, destroyed filing cabinets, threw folders and their contents all over the floor,’ said Washington County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Jared Taylor.

According to the school’s principal, John McKinney, the juveniles ‘pretty much destroyed’ the school’s main computer server. A school teacher identified the boys from school surveillance video, Taylor said.

The teens, who all confessed Monday, each were charged with one count of felony vandalism of more than $40,000 and one count of burglary. All three boys were being held in the Johnson City Juvenile Detention Center on bond awaiting Juvenile Court.

Taylor said the teens, two of which have previous criminal records, have shown no remorse for their alleged actions.

‘They were all talking about how easy juvenile (jail) is and how they were just worried about what they will eat,’ Taylor said. ‘None were upset, none were crying. They were not remorseful whatsoever.’