Arizona boy pleads guilty to 3 probation violations
Jun 15, 2012, 5:24 PM | Updated: 5:24 pm
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. – A St. John’s boy who acknowledged fatally shooting his
father’s friend pleaded guilty Friday to a trio of probation violations.
Prosecutors offered to drop the majority of alleged violations against the
12-year-old boy if he acknowledged twice leaving a residential treatment center
without permission and destroying a wall clock.
A spokeswoman for the Apache County Superior Court says the boy pleaded guilty
to three probation violations, and 12 other allegations were dismissed.
The boy was 8 when he was charged in a double homicide in St. Johns in 2008.
He eventually pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of his father’s
friend and was sentenced to residential treatment. Prosecutors dropped a murder
charge against the boy in his father’s death.
Sentencing on the probation violations is set for Aug. 10.
