Q: If a 14 & 16 year old run aways from a Youth Village home, stays ranaway for several days, breaks into several houses
by taking knives and guns. Hiding from the law. Does the sheriff's office have the right to lock them up & keep them in jail until they can find a placement youth facility that can securely keep them within in the facility or should they be returning to the original youth village until trial?
A: They can hold them in juvenile detention, but not jail. They can hold them until the charges are resolved, but most likely will return them to DCS prior to that happening.
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