Police: Former Deputy 'Framed' Teen After His Mom Rejected Romantic Advances
Teen Originally Accused Of Planning Va. Tech-Style Attack
POSTED: Saturday, June 2, 2007
UPDATED: 9:44 am EDT June 4,
2007
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A former Central Florida sheriff's reserve deputy was charged with framing an 18-year-old by planting pipe bombs inside the student's home because the teen's mother rejected his romantic advances, according to police.
Scotty Davis, 18, was held by deputies on May 11 after officers found two pipe bombs at his home. He was accused of planning a Virginia Tech-style attack after the bombs were found.
However, during the investigation, several pipe bomb tips and a bomb threat at Davis' school, Pace-Brantley Hall School, led officers to former Seminole County reserve deputy Kenneth Reeves, the report said.
Reeves was then taken into custody and charged.
"(Officers) say (Reeves) framed Scotty Davis and his family because of jealousy after being rejected by Davis' mother," Local 6's Chris Trenkmann said.
Reeves is accused of planting explosives and misleading authorities into going after the teen, Local 6 reported.
Davis' father said the incident was a "brutal experience."
"Obviously, seeing your son in the back of a police car is difficult," father Scott Davis said. "It is not something you want to see as a parent."
"(It has been) hell," victim's grandfather John Davis said. "It tears your family apart. I mean I brought my grandson down to questioning and it literally tore me up. I never thought I'd ever live to see anything like this."
Davis said parents of his classmates at Pace-Brantley Hall School turned on him and called for his expulsion.
"They're thinking you are a terrorist and then supposedly I did not (issue) bomb threats at my old school," Davis said. "That was not fun."
"We are making sure we look out for each other," Scotty's mother Heather Davis said.
Reeves is charged with armed burglary with explosives and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
He remains in the Orange County Jail without bond.
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