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3 Boys Under House Arrest In Bottle Bomb Scare

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By MIKE WELLS, The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 19, 2007

Updated: 09/19/2007 06:23 pm

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TAMPA - Wearing loose-fitting orange detention outfits and shackled, three middle school students accused of setting off an acid bomb were remanded to house arrest today by a judge.

The three boys, a 12-year-old and two 11-year-olds, were ordered not to watch television, play video games or contact one another. The three boys are allowed to leave home for school, church, lawyers and medical care.

Two of the boys are brothers, so Hillsborough Circuit Judge Robert Foster asked the parents to have the boys sleep in separate bedrooms.

The three boys were arrested Tuesday morning after detonating an acid bomb at a bus stop, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The boys tossed it into a storm sewer when it erupted. No one was injured.

Deputies arrived and found the bottle, which contained blue liquid and aluminum foil.

Deputies found the children at Walker Middle School in Odessa and charged each with possessing and placing a destructive device, a felony.

On Wednesday, the judge put the boys together and reprimanded them.

"Yes, you created a lot of problems," Foster told them. "You scared a lot of people. It's scary in here, isn't it? You want to come back? Stop doing that!"

The boys return to court on Oct. 10.

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