Young hoodlums cause 50k in damages to school library, are turned in by their own moms

Two mothers brought their own sons to the police after they allegedly caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage to their school library.

Bodycam video shows the moment Volusia County, Florida, officers responded to a fire alarm at the Friendship Elementary library in Deltona at one in the morning. The extent of the destruction is difficult to overstate. It looks like a small natural disaster tore through the area. Tables and shelves were overturned, books were strewn about, and graffiti could be seen scrawled across doors as the officers worked to make sense of what they had walked into.

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Overnight, deputies responded to a fire alarm at Friendship Elementary School in Deltona. Once on scene, they found a glass door had been shattered and the media center had been vandalized. Two persons of interest were captured on camera but have not been identified. If you have… pic.twitter.com/U9KBjtf570

— Volusia Sheriff (@VolusiaSheriff) September 14, 2025

Images of two “persons of interest” were published, showing two young males wearing masks. Police asked anyone with information to contact the authorities, and it didn’t take long for the suspects to be handed over to them by their own mothers.

A Facebook update from the sheriff’s office reported that Felix Cohen Romero, 12, and Bentley Ryan, 13, confessed to causing nearly $50,000 in damage. They had reportedly broken in during the day to cause mayhem, and “then returned later in the evening to look at the damage and cause more.”

“They are each charged with 2 counts of burglary, 2 counts of trespassing on school grounds, criminal mischief, and theft,” the post notes.

X users weighed in on the pint-sized punks being ratted out by their moms:

That’s how we do things in Florida.

— Wonderbabble (@Wonderbabble) September 16, 2025

Good on the moms!

— JoeBlo (@OpenMindedHo) September 16, 2025

Way to go, moms! Teach them consequences before it’s too late.

— Linda Masci (@goqivana) September 16, 2025

Now make them clean it all up and spend every weekend for the rest of the year working with maintenance staff so they learn some respect.

— Cleopatra Ferrulli (@CleopatraF41616) September 16, 2025

And bleeding heart Democrats are going to blame society, the school, their parents, DeSantis, Trump, and conservatives….everyone but the two who are actually responsible. Dems are ROTTEN!

— The American Soapbox (@NAE1777) September 16, 2025

Shave their heads. Enroll them in a military school. Require them to clean up their mess…

I would donate my kid to child services

— MoonPie_X (@MoonPieGenX) September 16, 2025

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