Plainfield 12-Year-Old Charged With Setting 5 Hazelwood Drive Fires
Police say the youth has admitted to setting the fires and to other crimes; more details will be forthcoming in Tuesday press conference.
A 12-year-old boy was arrested Monday for setting a string of arson fires along Hazelwood Drive that terrorized neighbors and prompted many to buy motion-detection lights and video surveillance systems. Plainfield Police Chief John Konopek said the boy, a middle-school student who lives in the neighborhood, had been a suspect in the fires that occurred between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8. However, he wasn’t charged until police caught him breaking into a vehicle in the neighborhood and obtained his confession, he said. “Very early in the investigation he was a suspect but we wanted to build a solid case against him,” Konopek said. “We wanted to keep our minds open in case it wasn’t him. … We wanted to draw him out and catch him in the act.” Police …
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MidwestGal
5:22 pm on Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Parents, if you have middle or highschoolers...TALK to them. If you are doing a good job, they will talk about their lives, but also will talk about what the bad kids are up to. The bad kids are not the smartest - they talk and post things on Facebook about what they've done. I know of many pety "crimes" done in my neighborhood, but I PARENT my kid, I can not parent them all. It amazes me that … more ›