Dwyer senior arrested for knife at school
Girl, 18, claims she was harassed by other student.
PALM BEACH GARDENS — A William T. Dwyer High School senior has been ordered held under house arrest after she brought a foot-long knife to school Tuesday amid an unresolved dispute with another student, school police records state.
The 18-year-old told police she was tired of another student making remarks about her dead grandmother. So Tuesday she confronted the student in a classroom.
“I’m going to get you for what you said,” the teacher recalled her telling the student. “I’ve got something in my bag for you.”
The Riviera Beach teen reportedly swore and hurled threats at the student until the teacher intervened.
There is no indication the teen removed the weapon from her bag during the confrontation.
The teen is in the school’s Exceptional Education and Student Services program for students with disabilities, and as such The Post is not naming her, although she has been charged as an adult.
The other student reportedly admitted to confronting the student and told police he had been trying to get her to threaten him.
The girl was arrested Tuesday on charges of possession of a weapon on school property and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Judge Dina Keever-Agrama ordered during a hearing at the Palm Beach County Jail that she be released on in-house arrest and wear an ankle monitor.
The girl’s mother said during the court appearance that her daughter had been “bullied” at Dwyer since the ninth grade but had never been in trouble before.
After her arrest, the 18-year-old told school police that she never told her parents or any school official about being harassed.
Once she is released, the teen will have to attend a school other than Dwyer, Keever-Agrama said Wednesday.
Court records indicate that the teen is at least the second Dwyer student to be arrested on a weapons-related offense this school year. In October, a 16-year-old reportedly showed another student a gun while on the school bus.
Police arrested him near West 23rd Street and Avenue E in Riviera Beach while the bus was on an afternoon route.
Court records indicate that the teen is at least the second Dwyer student to be arrested on a weapons-related offense this school year.