Rivers teen remains in custody as bail ruling postponed
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The Rivers youth accused of plotting to attack his high school remains in custody after a bail hearing in Brandon provincial court Thursday.
Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta reserved her decision on the bail application following submissions from the Crown and the boy’s lawyer.
The matter will next appear in provincial court on June 15.
The 14-year-old boy is being held at the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg.
A publication ban prohibits The Brandon Sun from describing any evidence or submissions presented during the hearing.
The youth was initially charged in March with uttering threats to harm students at Rivers Collegiate, but additional charges were laid last month for conspiracy to commit murder, counselling the offence of murder and two counts of uttering threats.
Manitoba RCMP arrested the youth on a school bus near Provincial Road 250 on March 16, police said in a news release.
RCMP seized his phone and other electronic devices. Police also had a warrant to search two properties associated with the youth and seized two firearms owned by a relative, additional electronic devices and other items, police said.
Police allege the youth and a 15-year-old girl from Bridgewater, N.S. were discussing and planning a simultaneous attack to harm students at their respective schools.
Interpol and the FBI alerted police in Canada to an alleged online conversation between the two teens. Mounties said the conversation began in late February.
Rivers Collegiate is a Grade 7 to 12 school with about 140 students, the school’s website says. The community, located 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon, has a population of less than 1,500 people.
The 15-year-old in Bridgewater was also arrested on March 16 and remains in police custody. She faces several charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and uttering threats.
Bridgewater police said they seized handwritten plans, imitation weapons, a roughly made imitation pipe bomb and assault rifle, and clothing with hate symbols from the 15-year-old’s home.
Neither of the teens can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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