Juvenile Corrections

2008 Citizen's Police Academy draws to close (05/28/08)
Eleven people completed the 2008 version of the Spencer Citizen's Police Academy. The academy courses took place on Tuesday nights from March 18 until May 20. The topics included criminal law, search and seizure, 911, crime scenes, gathering of evidence, processing crime scenes, drug investigations and traffic enforcement...

Deputies make arrests in Hap Ketelsen thefts (04/26/08)
By Russ Mitchell Daily Reporter Staff Four area teenagers face theft-related charges after a break-in last weekend at the Hap Ketelsen Community Center in Everly. Deputies think the teenagers broke into the community center took cases of beer, a keg, wine and hard liquor from the building's inventory...

Mailbox case returned to Clay County (03/25/08)
Federal authorities are going to loosen their grip on a local "MacGyver bomb" case, according to Clay County Attorney Michael Houchins. Seventeen federal felony charges of destruction of letter boxes were originally filed on Saturday, March 8, after a group of teenagers were suspected of planting explosive devices in the mailboxes in and around Spencer. Seven state felony counts of destruction of letter boxes with an explosive device also were filed...