Monday, June 15, 2009

Juvenile Fugitive Given Probation

NBC 4: A ‘tween was sentenced Monday for his part in a series of South Side arson fires. A Franklin County Juvenile Domestic/Common Pleas Court judge sentenced 12-year-old Ryan Parsley to intensive probation after he was charged in connection with two January South Side fires: one on Barthman Avenue and another on Innis Avenue. Ryan was to remain on probation until June 15, 2011.

The probation included a curfew set by his probation officer, inability to leave his county of residence without his probation officer’s permission, residential treatment, random drug testing, and electronic monitoring device as needed per his probation officer, no contact with co-defendants or other known gang members.

Franklin County Children Services got temporary custody of Parsley in November 2008 but didn’t get their hands on him until after police picked him up on two arson charges Saturday, Feb. 21. A juvenile judge ordered 12-year-old Ryan Parsley to a juvenile facility on Pierce Drive Monday, March 9.

Ryan escaped from the facility Saturday, March 21, and was on the run for several weeks. He was arrested Tuesday, April 14, after his family persuaded him to turn himself in. Parsley’s father, William Parsley, remained in jail on two counts of aggravated arson. Jeremy Davis, 15, also was charged with criminal damaging in connection with the series of arsons. He turned himself in Saturday, April 11, and remained in custody.

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