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Middle Schoolers Planned Armed Takeover, Cops Say
Officials: Students Wanted to Make Themselves Famous

Feb. 11, 2000

By Richard Zitrin

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (APBnews.com) -- Sheriff's investigators have foiled a plan by seven middle-school students to take their school's 16 teachers hostage in an armed takeover, authorities said today.

The Sierra Ridge Middle School seventh-graders planned to take homemade smoke bombs and stolen guns to the school to carry out their plot, which was intended to gain them media attention before they ran away from home, said El Dorado sheriff's Sgt. Hal Lamb.

Fellow students got wind of the plot and alerted school officials, who contacted the sheriff's office Wednesday morning, he said.

Three of the boys were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and making a terrorist threat, Lamb said. Those boys -- two 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old -- are being held in the juvenile detention center.

Their names were not released because they were charged as juveniles.

The other four boys were released to the custody of their parents. All seven were suspended from school, Lamb said.

'Maybe they're Columbine wannabes'

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