At least 60 students at Teaneck High School in New Jersey were arrested on Thursday morning after vandalizing the school as part of their senior prank, NorthJersey.com reported.
At a press conference after the arrests, Acting Police Chief Robert Carney said students broke into the building around 2 a.m. and began breaking chairs and desks, smearing vaseline on the walls, and urinating on the floors.
Of the 62 students arrested, 38 of them are juveniles, Carney said. The adult students will stand before Judge James E. Young, Jr. at the town's municipal court to be charged with criminal mischief and burglary and the juveniles have been handed over to their parents.
Superintendent Barbara Pinsak said the district is "is considering the consequences it will impose on the students implicated" and added the school has been cleaned and "teaching continues as we speak."
Police Sgt. John Garland said officers arrived at the school after a burglary alarm went off at 2:11 a.m. He added police said "numerous individuals" through the windows, some of which fled the scene, but caught a majority of them.
"It is possible that a few got away but the majority were caught," he said.
According to investigators, the students told authorities that the vandalism was their senior prank.
Maryann Sharpe, who dropped her freshman grandson off at school this morning, told NorthJersey.com that he knew the prank would happen "but he didn't know it would be taken to this level."
Sharpe said the prank demonstrated a "total disregard" for the rest of the students.
In addition to local police, the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, Bergen County Police Department, and police departments from Fort Lee, Palisades Park, Hackensack, Bergenfield, Cresskill, Ridgefield, Ridgefield Park, Bogota, Dumont, Englewood, New Milford, Glen Rock, Paramus, Englewood Cliffs, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway responded to the incident.
