Attendant, student arrested after Polk County school bus fight
By FOX 13 News Staff
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Ken Suarez reports
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.