In one year, the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office leaders say they’ve reduced by nearly half the number of juveniles prosecutors have charged as adults for non-violent felonies.
The announcement from Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg comes nearly two months after Florida Gov. Rick Scott cited a Florida Department of Juvenile Justice placing the number of juvenile arrests statewide at a 40-year low.
The last of nine men arrested in a probe of animal cruelty at three Loxahatchee farms pleaded guilty to five charges on Wednesday and was handed a 90-day jail sentence.