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Speaker 1: Crime rd hourly update, Breaking crime News Now. I'm Dave Mack.

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Speaker 1: A fourteen year old main boy was arrested just before

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Speaker 1: the holiday break, police saying he had drawn up a

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Speaker 1: hit list and was plotting to harm classmates. Many parents

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Speaker 1: opted to keep their children home from school on Friday

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Speaker 1: when a holiday assembly was planned. After the Wyndham High

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Speaker 1: School freshman was sent home on house arrest, another student

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Speaker 1: alerted police to his behavior Monday night. The boy was

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Speaker 1: arrested on Tuesday and charged with criminal solicitation, criminal conspiracy

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Speaker 1: and terrorizing. Police said the boy created a list of

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Speaker 1: people he planned to target and used as school issued

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Speaker 1: laptop to search how to purchase a gun. Another student

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Speaker 1: saw the search and contacted police. Gina Castopolos kept all

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Speaker 1: four of her children home on Friday.

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Speaker 2: So unsettling. It just doesn't seem appropriate in this instance.

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Speaker 2: So many things have been happening for us to give

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Speaker 2: somebody a slap on the rest and say, hey, you

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Speaker 2: can just stay at home under your parents' supervision, that's

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Speaker 2: not enough.

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Speaker 1: Wyndham Police Chief Kevin Schofield, however, said there was no

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Speaker 1: current threat to the school or it's students. Superintendent Christopher

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Speaker 1: Howell expressed his confidence in Windham PD's investigation.

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Speaker 3: There isn't any danger to students win a police department who,

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Speaker 3: first of all have been great, They've been great partners

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Speaker 3: with us, but have assured us that through their investigation,

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Speaker 3: they are more than confident for that it is safe

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Speaker 3: for us to be in school and for us to

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Speaker 3: continue on with all of our regular programming.

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Speaker 1: Schofield said that investigators don't believe the teen bought a weapon.

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Speaker 1: Those students who did attend on Friday saw a heavy

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Speaker 1: police presence outside the school. A fourteen year old main

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Speaker 1: boy was arrested just before the holiday break, police saying

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Speaker 1: he had drawn up a hit list and was plotting

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Speaker 1: to harm classmates. Many parents opted to keep their children

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Speaker 1: home from school on Friday, when a holiday assembly was planned.

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Speaker 1: After the Wyndham High School freshman was sent home on

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Speaker 1: house arrest, another student alerted police to his behavior Monday night.

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Speaker 1: The boy was arrested on Tuesday and charge with criminal solicitation,

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Speaker 1: criminal conspiracy, and terrorizing. Police said the boy created a

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Speaker 1: list of people he planned to target and used as

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Speaker 1: school issued laptop to search how to purchase a gun.

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Speaker 1: Another student saw the search and contacted police Gina Castopolos

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Speaker 1: kept all four of her children home on Friday.

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Speaker 2: So unsettling. It just doesn't seem appropriate in this instance.

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Speaker 2: So many things have been happening for us to give

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Speaker 2: somebody a slap on the rest and say, hey, you

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Speaker 2: can just stay at home under your parents' supervision, that's

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Speaker 2: not enough.

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Speaker 1: Windham Police Chief Kevin Schofield, however, said there was no

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Speaker 1: current threat to the school or it's students. Superintendent Christopher

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Speaker 1: Howell expressed his confidence in win empd's investigation.

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Speaker 3: There isn't any danger to students when a police department

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Speaker 3: who first of all have been great, They've been great

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Speaker 3: partners with us, but have assured us that through their investigation,

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Speaker 3: they are more than confident that it is safe for

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Speaker 3: us to be in school and for us to continue

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Speaker 3: on with all of our regular programming.

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Speaker 1: Schofield said that in investigators don't believe their team bought

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Speaker 1: a weapon. Those students who did attend on Friday saw

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Speaker 1: a heavy police presence outside of the school. Federal authorities

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Speaker 1: annouced last week they rescued forty three children in time

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Speaker 1: for the holidays, some younger than two, following a twelve

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Speaker 1: day operation focused in Florida, but spanning several nearby states,

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Speaker 1: the US Marshall Service, and between their agents and officers

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Speaker 1: from twenty five other agencies. Eighty personnel were dedicated to

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Speaker 1: locating children during Operation Northern Lights, which was conducted from

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Speaker 1: December first to December twelfth. The mission focused on finding

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Speaker 1: critically missing children and providing them with immediate care and

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Speaker 1: protection from exploitation. Operation Northern Lights includes a comprehensive multidisciplinary

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Speaker 1: task force of federal, state, and local government agencies, plus

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Speaker 1: social services, the medical community, and non government mintal organizations.

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Speaker 1: Operational planning and coordination led to the institution of a

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Speaker 1: two week initiative geared to recover and safely locate community's

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Speaker 1: most critically missing youth, and an issue of this magnitude

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Speaker 1: has not been undertaken in northern Florida until this month.

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Speaker 1: In addition to Florida, authorities located children in Louisiana and Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: Some of the rescued children include a one year old

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Speaker 1: from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a seventeen year old and a

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Speaker 1: one year old from Okhusa County recovered near Jackson, Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: A fifteen year old abducted by a non custodial adult

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Speaker 1: found in Ocala, with the suspect arrested, and a thirteen

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Speaker 1: year old who had been missing since April now. One

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Speaker 1: example they shared is of a thirteen year old girl

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Speaker 1: who had been missing for eight months of Swan County.

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Speaker 1: During that period of missing, investigators believe she had been

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Speaker 1: transported through multiple states. Teams worked tirelessly on the case

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Speaker 1: and were able to successfully and safely locate and recover

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Speaker 1: her in Jacksonville, Florida. During the operation, said nine arrests

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Speaker 1: were made, mostly for custodial interference, but further charges are

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Speaker 1: still pending, including several trafficking cases. Forty three children were

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Speaker 1: located during the operation is a twelve day operation. Some

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Speaker 1: of the kids where infants and toddlers, all are now safe.

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Speaker 1: The recovered children receive medical care, food, shelter, and counseling

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Speaker 1: immediately after being found. Child advocates were on hand to

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Speaker 1: help with emotional recovery and ensure long term safety. It

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Speaker 1: was a very successful missing child operation, the biggest ever

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Speaker 1: undertaken in Northern Florida, and forty three endangered children are

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Speaker 1: now home for the holidays. For the latest crime and

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