Post by WaTcHeR on Apr 27, 2006 11:23:32 GMT -5
04/26/2006 - Deltona -- The Sheriff's Office is investigating whether a deputy acted appropriately while breaking up a fight in a school cafeteria during which two teenage girls -- one of them pregnant -- kicked, punched and bit adults trying to restrain them.
According to sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson, the fight broke out during the Monday lunch period at Deltona High School. When Deputy Christine Faer, a school resource officer, tried to break it up, Crystal Vega, 18, shoved her, punched her in the face and rammed her with her shoulder, Davidson said, adding that Vega also kicked, punched and bit other deputies who came to help restrain her.
Vega, a 10th-grader who is seven months pregnant, was fighting with an unidentified girl about a boyfriend.
Reports by several deputies who came to the scene said Vega continued to fight even after deputies restrained her. Faer said she grabbed Vega's hair to control her. That action is being reviewed by Internal Affairs to determine whether it was appropriate, Davidson said.
Vega, of Deltona, was arrested and charged with battery on a law-enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. She remained in the Volusia County Branch Jail on Wednesday, with bail set at $6,250.
Her 15-year-old sister, Carrie Vega, also was arrested after she jumped into the fight, cursed at the deputies and, according to reports, bit a campus adviser on the hand.
Carrie Vega, also a 10th-grader, was charged with battery on a law-enforcement officer, battery on a school employee, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. She was taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
A 17-year-old boy was charged with a misdemeanor for slapping a student during the incident, and a 16-year-old boy was charged with obstruction of justice for refusing to leave the scene of the fight, according to reports.
Faer was treated at the hospital for two strained tendons in her right hand, a black eye and scratches on her left hand. She is on medical leave for the rest of the week.
According to sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson, the fight broke out during the Monday lunch period at Deltona High School. When Deputy Christine Faer, a school resource officer, tried to break it up, Crystal Vega, 18, shoved her, punched her in the face and rammed her with her shoulder, Davidson said, adding that Vega also kicked, punched and bit other deputies who came to help restrain her.
Vega, a 10th-grader who is seven months pregnant, was fighting with an unidentified girl about a boyfriend.
Reports by several deputies who came to the scene said Vega continued to fight even after deputies restrained her. Faer said she grabbed Vega's hair to control her. That action is being reviewed by Internal Affairs to determine whether it was appropriate, Davidson said.
Vega, of Deltona, was arrested and charged with battery on a law-enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. She remained in the Volusia County Branch Jail on Wednesday, with bail set at $6,250.
Her 15-year-old sister, Carrie Vega, also was arrested after she jumped into the fight, cursed at the deputies and, according to reports, bit a campus adviser on the hand.
Carrie Vega, also a 10th-grader, was charged with battery on a law-enforcement officer, battery on a school employee, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. She was taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
A 17-year-old boy was charged with a misdemeanor for slapping a student during the incident, and a 16-year-old boy was charged with obstruction of justice for refusing to leave the scene of the fight, according to reports.
Faer was treated at the hospital for two strained tendons in her right hand, a black eye and scratches on her left hand. She is on medical leave for the rest of the week.