Bodycam footage shows Texas teen being placed under arrest ny school deputy for allegedly stealing a $13 plastic doorbell, spurring panic attack

In May 2024, Anabelle Jaramillo rang a plastic doorbell outside a classroom at Texas City High School. The $13 bell came off and Anabelle walked away with it, according to a description of surveillance footage included in a police report. The next day, administrators accused the 17-year-old honor student of theft and assigned her three days of in-school suspension. Certain there had been a misunderstanding, Anabelle showed up at the office of Sonia Davis, an assistant principal. She told Davis that she had accidentally dislodged the doorbell and tucked it into a nearby planter so that she would not get in trouble, she recalled in an interview.