Teen girl remains in county jail 3-weeks after graffiti at Myra Green Middle School & stadium

2010-02-17 / Front Page

Three of the four teens who vandalized the new Myra Green Middle School and the high school football stadium have been bonded out of custody. Three of the four who spray painted the school causing $25,000 in damages are girls.

Of those a boy and a girl were ruled juveniles and were released to their parents after a short stay in the Darrell Hester juvenile facility in Harlingen.

Two girls, Jamie Lynn Moreno, 17, who lives at La Luz Apts. and Raven Villegas, 18, of North Third St. and San Francisco were charged with two counts of felony destruction of property and jailed on bonds totaling $40,000 each.

Villegas was released from county jail on Sunday after a court appointed attorney from Texas Rural Legal Aid intervened on her behalf with county and district attorney Bernard Ammerman.

“The reason there were two counts each is that the middle school still belongs to the construction company and has not yet been turned over to the schools, while the stadium belongs to the school district, so there were two crimes and two victims,” said Ammerman.

"I believe Raven was kind of a follower and what she did is bad but I don't want it to ruin her life. She had to agree to go to school every day and to observe the curfew. I let her out on Sunday so that she could go back to school on Monday," he added.

Meanwhile, Jaime Lynn Moreno, 17, remains in county jail three weeks after the graffiti incident. Ammerman said that by law Texas Rural Legal Aid can only handle one of the four juvenile cases. No one has approached his office on behalf of Moreno, he said.

At least $4,000 would be required to bond out Moreno, who Ammerman believes was the instigator of the vandalism.

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