Using marker at school leads to OKC teen's arrest
A Roosevelt Middle School teacher made a citizen's arrest Friday on an Oklahoma City student who was caught using a permanent marker to write on a desk.
Perhaps parents need to check supply lists and backpacks before sending their students back to school after winter break.
A 13-year-old was arrested Friday in Oklahoma City, accused of violating a little-known city ordinance that prohibits possession of a permanent marker in some circumstances.
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The teen was caught using a permanent marker at Roosevelt Middle School by a teacher, according to the crime report filed with the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Delynn Woodside noted the marker had bled through a piece of paper onto the desk and reported to a police officer that she also had seen the teen writing on the desk with the marker, the report said.
Woodside, a seventh-grade math teacher, made a citizen's arrest on the teen, and the police officer transferred the student to a Community Intervention Center that houses juveniles who have been arrested. The name of the minor was not released.
District spokeswoman Kathleen Kennedy said district officials will look into the incident when students return from winter break, which began Friday.
Under City Ordinance 35-202, it is illegal for any person to possess spray paint or a permanent marker on private property without the permission of the property owner.
“No person may possess an aerosol spray paint container or broad-tipped indelible marker on any private property unless the owner, agent, manager, or other person having control of the property consented to the presence of the aerosol spray paint container or broad-tipped indelible marker,” the ordinance reads.
The law appears to be directed at curbing graffiti and is under the nuisance chapter of city ordinance.
