HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The five teens that were arrested after threatening to shoot everyone at 
Hutchinson High School on the last day of class, were released from custody Wednesday afternoon. This following a status conference for Jake Eells, Dakota Bowman, Andre Harris, Tyler Cabral and Dominic Collins.
The five are charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder. It was the first hearing for the five since Judge Joe McCarvill allowed the affidavits from the search warrants to be unsealed. Judge Patty Macke-Dick said she wanted more proof that the teens were a danger to the public other than just the words of social media and released the five under numerous conditions. Those include no contact with each other, no use of any social media or e-mail, no possession of weapons, ammunition or explosives and that the five submit to drug tests and abide to a strict curfew.
Judge Macke -Dick also told the parents that they must sit down and talk with their sons every day. All of this will be supervised by court services. Any violation of the conditions would land the five back into what could at least be house arrest.
Prosecutor Cheryl Allen argued fiercely against the release of the teens saying that the conversations on social media are more than enough to keep the teens behind bars, especially when they told police they had access to weapons. Search warrants did turn up weapons and one facebook post said that one teen had enough guns and ammunition to shoot up half of the school. But Macke-Dick said that she didn’t feel there was any threat to the public at this time and ordered the teens released.
This doesn’t end the case as the five will still go to trial at some point unless a plea is entered by any of the teens. With police having to sift through more than 550,000 pages of facebook texts, it could be sometime before any trial takes place.