Grady Judd puts parents on notice over TikTok teen takeovers: 'We're gonna come lock you up too'

The "teen takeover" inclination has caught the attraction of Sheriff Grady Judd, with the Florida sheriff vowing to clasp parent's accountable for their unruly children.

"There's a caller TikTok trend," Sheriff Judd said successful a societal media video Thursday. "You know, going into restaurants, trashing places, gathering up, driving crazy."

"Listen, that's not gonna enactment successful Polk County," helium said.

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Polk County Schools Superintendent Fred Heid announced connected Thursday that 24 students had been arrested since the commencement of the schoolhouse twelvemonth for making written threats. (Polk County Schools YouTube)

Now Judd is raising the stakes and informing that helium would clasp parents of teenagers who instrumentality portion successful the societal media videos accountable if necessary.

"Mama and Daddy, if you don’t clasp them accountable, personally, marque definite they are location erstwhile they request to be, past we’re gonna travel fastener you up too, oregon complaint you civilly," helium said.

"But parents, clasp your children accountable, truthful we don't person to," Sherriff Judd said. "We volition clasp them accountable if you marque us, but past we're going to clasp you accountable, too. Think astir that. Then person a bully summer."

Authorities arrested 22 individuals during a teen takeover astatine Curtis Hixon Park successful Tampa, Fla., connected May 8, 2026. (Tampa Police Department)

Judd's connection comes arsenic cities crossed the state are facing teen takeovers are causing chaos.

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Polk County has a curfew successful spot for juveniles, which is for teens nether 17. The curfew is 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday done Thursday and midnight to 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. For 17-year-olds, it is midnight to 6 a.m. each day.

In adjacent Hillsborough County, which is straight adjacent to Polk County, constabulary announced that they had arrested 22 radical betwixt the ages of 12 and 21, arsenic portion of a teen takeover connected May 8.

Officers with the section were subsequently dispatched to the country and deployed aerial patrols to quell the youngsters, with assemblage camera footage showing the chaotic infinitesimal constabulary officers rushed onto the country and began making arrests astatine a teen takeover successful Tampa, Florida connected Friday, May 8, 2026.  (Tampa Police Department)

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The Tampa Police Department instantly responded with patrol officers, motorcycle units, and Air Service unit to reconstruct bid and guarantee the information of the surrounding community.

"This benignant of reckless and transgression behaviour volition not beryllium tolerated successful our city," Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said.

"What began arsenic a ample gathering rapidly escalated into upset and enactment that placed others astatine risk. Parents request to cognize wherever their children are and who they are with. Unfortunately, the mediocre decisions made by these 22 individuals past nighttime could person lasting consequences that travel them good into adulthood," helium said.

As a effect of the operation, 22 were arrested connected charges that included affray, possession of narcotics, resisting without violence, and unlawful possession of a weapon. Officers seized 2 firearms and 1 conveyance connected to the disturbance.

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The increasing situation prompted the apical national authoritative successful the nation’s superior to telephone for much accountability implicit rehabilitation for younker crimes arsenic her bureau focuses connected enhancing enforcement and expanding staffing.

"Youth unit is connected the emergence — not conscionable successful D.C., but crossed the country. And if you deliberation that these kids request to beryllium coddled, and they request to beryllium hugged — they request to person consequences, they request to recognize that capable is enough, that we're going to enactment them successful jailhouse oregon immoderate benignant of younker rehabilitation detention installation and not let the D.C. Council — 1 of whom I conscionable precocious indicted — to instrumentality screen for these kids," Pirro said.

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"It's clip to extremity it. That's what the president wants, that's what we're going to do."

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