MIAMI – The four Brownsville Middle School students arrested for bringing loaded handguns on school grounds Wednesday will not be going home, as their families and attorneys had hoped.
Despite arguments from the students' lawyers to place the boys on house arrest, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Christina Miranda bypassed state guidelines and decided the boys should remain locked up at the county's juvenile detention center.
"The facts of the arrest form being that the firearm was loaded and the location of the firearm, I find that it is for the community's best interest that he be held in secure detention," Miranda told the court.
The judge repeated those words three more times, after each of the youngsters stood before her.
According to police, two guns were found at the middle school Wednesday afternoon. One gun was found in a student's backpack and another was being carried by a student on his body.
Because the boys are minors, police are not releasing their names.
The four boys, who range in age from 11 to 15, are scheduled to make another court appearance on Friday, only this time they will be before a juvenile court judge.
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