Teenager arrested after fight at Miami Springs High School

16-year-old arrested on battery charges

MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla. ā€“ A teenage boy was arrested Tuesday after he was involved in a fight at Miami Springs Senior High School.

A Miami-Dade County Public Schools representative said the fight happened in the school's cafeteria during a lunch period.

The fight was broken up by a school response officer, but one of the boys, a 16-year-old who is in 10th grade, continued to be combative and was taken out of the school in handcuffs, police said.

Officers were questioning other students inside the cafeteria to try to determine why the fight started.

A MDCPS representative said the teenager was arrested on a charges of battery against a law enforcement officer, four counts of battery on a school employee and one count of disruption of a school function.

Neither students' identity was released.

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