ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, September 14, 1996 TAG: 9609160026
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: BEDFORD
A Liberty High School student has been charged with assault and battery after shoving the school's principal.
Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown said the student, an 11th-grader, was arrested Wednesday in the principal's office. The school's resource officer had "noticed a chemical odor" on the student when the student came into the office, Brown said. The student began to get irate while talking to the officer and school officials, then pushed Principal David Smith, Brown said.
Smith was not hurt.
Brown said the officer thought the student may have been "huffing," inhaling a noxious chemical substance, so they sent him to a Lynchburg hospital, where he was treated and released to the custody of his parents.
No charges will be filed in connection with the inhaling incident, Brown said. The student, however, has been placed in an alternative education program that requires him to be "away from the school until he can get himself adjusted to being responsible," Superintendent John Kent said.
Kent said he met with the student and his parents Thursday. The alternative education program is not on school property.
- Staff Report
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