On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested 68-year-old Algarene Richards and 15-year-old Jayvyn McFadden, both from Lake Wales, following an altercation on a school bus.On Wednesday, at around 3:30 p.m., a Polk County School bus was transporting students home from Frostproof Middle Senior High School. When…
Bus monitor, 15-year-old student arrested after fight on school bus, deputies say
Student was initially the lone suspect but video led deputies to also arrest bus monitor
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Polk County School District employee and a 15-year-old student were arrested Wednesday after an argument led to a brief tussle aboard a school bus, according to the sheriff’s office.
Polk County deputies responded to Freedlander Road and Sally Street in Lake Wales where the school bus attendant told authorities she had been assaulted by the Frostproof Middle Senior High School student.
News 6 is not naming the 15-year-old.
Attendant, student arrested after Polk County school bus fight
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LAKE WALES, Fla. - Algarene Richards, 68, and a 15-year-old male, both of Lake Wales, were arrested Wednesday after an altercation on a school bus, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
According to PCSO, the pair got into a verbal argument while riding a school bus taking students home from Frostproof Middle-Senior High School around 3:30 p.m. Deputies say the argument escalated and the two battered each other.
Richards was charged with child abuse. Deputies say she has a criminal history that includes three batteries, three aggravated assaults with a weapon, a dangerous discharge of a weapon, resisting a law enforcement officer, and shoplifting.