{"id":275116,"date":"2026-06-23T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275116\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:21:17","slug":"news-12-westchester-former-new-rochelle-teacher-ruled-not-fit-to-stand-trial-and-sent-to-psychiatric-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275116\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Former New Rochelle Teacher Ruled Not Fit To Stand Trial And Sent To Psychiatric Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A former teacher has been deemed not fit to stand trial in a case tied to alleged threats against officials within the New Rochelle School District.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Samuel McVey has been remanded to Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">McVey was<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/news12.com\/former-new-rochelle-teacher-indicted-on-multiple-charges-after-alleged-threats-against-school-officials\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> indicted on charges <\/a>including grand larceny, criminal contempt, aggravated harassment and bail jumping.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say that McVey made threats earlier this year against school district officials. He was first charged in February, shortly after he was fired as a Spanish teacher at Isaac Young Middle School. Authorities say he also posted numerous videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">McVey has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>He failed to appear for a previous court date, prompting a warrant for his arrest, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was later taken into custody in Louisiana and returned to Westchester County.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">McVey was remanded to the psychiatric center on Monday for treatment and evaluation. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The case is scheduled to return to court on July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former teacher has been deemed not fit to stand trial in a case tied to alleged threats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-275116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}