Oak Bluffs Teenager Won't Do Time for Stealing Cash
Telling police he needed money for food and clothing after his parents died, a member of the MVRHS varsity basketball team admitted taking cash left in an unlocked home. Deshawn James, 18, was placed on probation until 2015.
An 18-year-old Oak Bluffs man charged with unarmed burglary, entering a building in the night time and larceny will not go to jail after admitting to sufficient facts in the case, according to court documents. Instead, Deshawn James, who plays on the varsity basketball team at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, will be on probation for two years, perform 30 hours of community service and make restitution to his victims. In December, James admitted to police that he had taken cash on multiple occasions from an unlocked home on Grovedale Avenue in Oak Bluffs. According to the written report of Oak Bluffs Police Sgt. Michael Marchand, police were called to the home Dec. 5 to investigate “three separate incidents when different stashes of…
Michael West
2:40 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
I totally agree, and I regret the MVRHS principal chose to lean so hard on this. It is unrealistic to think kids wont experiment, especially with decriminalized substances, and it is equally unrealistic to think kids can entirely ignore peer pressure. The suspension is in my view draconian and inappropriate despite the ard line taken in the code of conduct. Does the principal think this will … more ›