First Posted: May 05, 2021 12:32 AM EDT
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A Florida teen who allegedly rigged a homecoming election is being charged as an adult. Emily Rose Grover was arrested in March and was only 17 years old at the time.
Grover turned 18 last April. With this, the state of Attorney s Office in Escambia County confirmed Tuesday that she would be tried as an adult.
Emily Rose Grover allegedly rigged the election with her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, 50. She and her mother face multiple felony charges from the October homecoming vote at Tate High School in Pensacola, Florida, Click Orlando reported.
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Florida Department of Justice
(PENSACOLA, Fla.) A teen charged as an adult has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony counts stemming from a Florida high school homecoming queen contest that prosecutors allege she and her mother rigged by hacking into a school district computer system.
If convicted, Emily Rose Grover, 18, a student at Tate High School in Pensacola, faces a maximum sentence of 16 years in prison, officials said.
The state attorney s office in Escambia County, Florida, confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday that Grover has been charged as an adult. She was 17 when the offense occurred, but shortly after they picked her up she turned 18, a spokesperson for the state attorney s office said.
Florida Teen charged as adult in rigged homecoming election
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 9:44 am EDT
PENSACOLA, Fla. A Florida teen accused of rigging a homecoming queen election with her mother is being charged as an adult, prosecutors said.
Emily Rose Grover was still 17 when she was arrested in March. She turned 18 in April, and the State Attorney’s Office in Escambia County confirmed Tuesday that Grover will be tried as an adult.
Grover and her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, 50, face multiple felony charges stemming from the October homecoming vote at Tate High School in Pensacola.
While employed as an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School in the same county, Carroll accessed the school district’s internal system to cast fraudulent votes for her daughter so that she would win, officials said. The investigation began in November when the Escambia County School District reported unauthorized access into hundreds of student accounts, accor