#juvenile-detention

#juvenile-detention

A youth counselor at a juvenile detention facility in Brooklyn pocketed more than $70,000 in bribes to sneak in drugs and weapons, Big Apple investigators said Thursday. Lymek Frazier, 31, is accused of taking payments from relatives and friends of youths locked up at the Crossroads Juvenile Center through cash apps, including over $21,000 in bribes in 48 "transactions" over just six months last year, the New York City Department of Investigation announced.

A 13-year-old Everett boy arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last week had a gun and a knife on him when apprehended, a Department of Homeland Security official claimed Monday. "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

A youth development specialist at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center will spend a year and a day behind bars for smuggling in contraband including a crushed-up prescription painkiller that caused one of the young detainees to suffer a non-fatal overdose, according to the feds. Da'Vante Bolton, 32, of Queens, was sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, after pleading guilty last year to taking bribes to smuggle pot, pills and scalpels into the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville,

A transgender girl housed in a male unit at Washington, D.C.'s Youth Services Center was hospitalized with a broken jaw after a fight last week that also injured another teen.