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01-13-2004, 02:34 PM
Two La. Students Arrested in Alleged Plot
Tue Jan 13,11:27 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
DUTCHTOWN, La. - Two high school students were arrested and accused of creating an elaborate plan to re-create the bloody Columbine high school massacre on its five-year anniversary in April.
Christopher Levins, 17, of Prairieville and Adam Sinclair, 19, of Geismar were each booked Monday with one count of terrorizing — a felony punishable with up to 15 years in prison, Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said.
"This is not just a case of kids just talking to be cool," Wiley said. "These students had plans all worked out."
The alleged plot was discovered after an anonymous call was made to Dutchtown High School on Friday indicated some kind of armed disturbance was being planned. Levins and Sinclair admitted some of the planning but called it a "fantasy" and a joke, and said they never really planned to go through with it, Lt. Kevin Hanna said.
Deputies said they found drawings and papers about the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High in Littleton, Colo. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before committing suicide. Twenty-three others were wounded.
Poems by the pair about being bullied and numerous writings in which Levins, a senior, and Sinclair, a sophomore, refer to themselves as "The Trenchcoat Mafia" were also found, authorities said. Harris and Klebold had been said to belong to a loosely knit group with that name at Columbine, though investigators later said they were not part of it.
"We found one drawing that had the student blowing the brains out of a particular teacher," Wiley said. Another depicted Levins and Sinclair on a school roof celebrating around dead bodies hanging out of windows, officers said.
"Apparently, they were planning to wake up at 4:20 a.m. on April 20 of this year to do this," Maj. Tony Bacala said.
Authorities said said no weapons were found, although detectives did find evidence that Levins and Sinclair had obtained information on buying shotguns and rifles.
The investigation is continuing and more arrests are possible, Wiley said. Neither student has a criminal record, and school officials said neither was a discipline problem.
Efforts to reach the two students' families for comment were unsuccesful Tuesday morning. There were no telephone listings for Levins or Sinclair in the area.
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Why do people do stuff like this? It breaks my heart and makes me cry everytime I come home from school and read stuff like this on my homepage (Yahoo). To think, in two months, it will be my last March 5th here at Santana... I've been trying to prepare myself for that, but I don't think I'll be going to school again like the two previous years. *sigh* I'm just all emotional now, it's bad enough I'm cramping and aching... Then on top of it, Katie ditched 4th block at school with Mallory and didn't even get busted yesterday. Grandpa got mad at her and let her go back to Mallorys... he's been favoring her for weeks now... but that's a whole nother' story...
Sooo long unfair world... I'm going to go soak my problems away and wallow in a nice warm bubble bath for a while... :D Just till my toes start to look like prunes, then I'm out!! :eek:
Tue Jan 13,11:27 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
DUTCHTOWN, La. - Two high school students were arrested and accused of creating an elaborate plan to re-create the bloody Columbine high school massacre on its five-year anniversary in April.
Christopher Levins, 17, of Prairieville and Adam Sinclair, 19, of Geismar were each booked Monday with one count of terrorizing — a felony punishable with up to 15 years in prison, Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said.
"This is not just a case of kids just talking to be cool," Wiley said. "These students had plans all worked out."
The alleged plot was discovered after an anonymous call was made to Dutchtown High School on Friday indicated some kind of armed disturbance was being planned. Levins and Sinclair admitted some of the planning but called it a "fantasy" and a joke, and said they never really planned to go through with it, Lt. Kevin Hanna said.
Deputies said they found drawings and papers about the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High in Littleton, Colo. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before committing suicide. Twenty-three others were wounded.
Poems by the pair about being bullied and numerous writings in which Levins, a senior, and Sinclair, a sophomore, refer to themselves as "The Trenchcoat Mafia" were also found, authorities said. Harris and Klebold had been said to belong to a loosely knit group with that name at Columbine, though investigators later said they were not part of it.
"We found one drawing that had the student blowing the brains out of a particular teacher," Wiley said. Another depicted Levins and Sinclair on a school roof celebrating around dead bodies hanging out of windows, officers said.
"Apparently, they were planning to wake up at 4:20 a.m. on April 20 of this year to do this," Maj. Tony Bacala said.
Authorities said said no weapons were found, although detectives did find evidence that Levins and Sinclair had obtained information on buying shotguns and rifles.
The investigation is continuing and more arrests are possible, Wiley said. Neither student has a criminal record, and school officials said neither was a discipline problem.
Efforts to reach the two students' families for comment were unsuccesful Tuesday morning. There were no telephone listings for Levins or Sinclair in the area.
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Why do people do stuff like this? It breaks my heart and makes me cry everytime I come home from school and read stuff like this on my homepage (Yahoo). To think, in two months, it will be my last March 5th here at Santana... I've been trying to prepare myself for that, but I don't think I'll be going to school again like the two previous years. *sigh* I'm just all emotional now, it's bad enough I'm cramping and aching... Then on top of it, Katie ditched 4th block at school with Mallory and didn't even get busted yesterday. Grandpa got mad at her and let her go back to Mallorys... he's been favoring her for weeks now... but that's a whole nother' story...
Sooo long unfair world... I'm going to go soak my problems away and wallow in a nice warm bubble bath for a while... :D Just till my toes start to look like prunes, then I'm out!! :eek: