Burglar sent to prison

A judge’s order wasn’t enough to keep a Bonners Ferry student in school.

Chris B. Jones, 18, now is going to prison for six months.

Jones was sentenced in September for breaking into two vehicles on June 11 in the Bonners Ferry city parking lot.

He was placed on five years probation. One term of that probation was that Jones was told he must complete high school in Bonners Ferry. If he failed to do so, District Judge James R. Michaud told Jones he could be ordered to serve the entire two to four years of his suspended prison sentence.

On Oct. 6, he was expelled from Bonners Ferry High School for threatening another student. Because he violated his probation, Jones was arrested.

He will serve his time with Idaho Department of Corrections in Cottonwood.

“I’m sending you with the hope that you learn something from the process of a retained jurisdiction,” District Judge Steve Verby told Jones during his sentencing on Nov. 6. “Your future is in your hands, and you have the keys to your own jail cell. Make the best of this opportunity.”