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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Violent student attempts to commandeer Marion County school bus

A Marion County school bus driver called Marion County sheriff’s deputies for help Tuesday after a Dunnellon High School student took her wallet and demanded she drive him straight home.

When the first deputy arrived at the bus, which was parked on the side of the road in the 12300 block of County Road 484, the driver told him that several students had become “very loud” and started causing a disturbance.

She said one student asked her to divert the bus to his house because he had had to go to work. When she told him she couldn’t do that, the student became “very irate and started yelling at her” before grabbing her wallet, a sheriff’s office report states.

The driver said the student then told her to turn the bus around and they “began to argue more.” She said the student eventually threw the wallet in her direction but it didn’t hit her, the report says.

The driver told deputies that the student “continued to yell at her and got into her face” before raising an open hand and swinging it toward her, “like he was trying to slap her.” The driver said she wasn’t struck but was in fear that the student was going to hit her, the report says.

Deputies spoke with the student’s father, who came to pick up his son. And they notified the Dunnellon High School resource officer and the sheriff’s office’s juvenile division of the incident, the report says.