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A provincial court judge in Brandon has denied bail for a Rivers, Man., teen accused of planning a school attack.<\/p>\n
The 14-year-old, who has been in custody since RCMP arrested him on March 16, made his court appearance via video from the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder, counselling the offence of murder and two counts of uttering threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police allege the teen plotted an attack on Rivers Collegiate, a Grade 7-12 school with fewer than 150 students.<\/p>\n
Rivers, a community in southwestern Manitoba with fewer than 1,000 residents, is about 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon.<\/p>\n
The teen asked Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta earlier this month to be released and placed in the care of a responsible person.<\/p>\n
A provision in the Youth Criminal Justice Act allows for such a release if certain conditions are met and a judge approves.<\/p>\n
Hewitt-Michta announced her decision to deny bail after reading from her report for about 25 minutes.<\/p>\n
Police allege the boy and a 15-year-old in Bridgewater, N.S., planned to simultaneously attack their schools. The latter was Park View Education Centre in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n
Conversations between two teens started in mid-February, police allege, with a Manitoba teen “actively discussing and planning to harm other students at Rivers Collegiate.”<\/p>\n
Interpol and the FBI tipped off Bridgewater police about online communications planning school attacks.<\/p>\n
RCMP arrested the Rivers teen on a bus on the way to school. Police searched two properties associated with the boy, seizing electronic devices and two firearms owned by a relative.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say they plan to seek an adult sentence for the youth if he is convicted.<\/p>\n
His case is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-772998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}