Cleveland Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, "is known for high quality programs, exceptional teachers, a superior learning environments, and strong parental and community support," according to its website. "High quality" should probably be hyphenated there and "a superior" most definitely should not have the indefinite article ("a") there, but let's not make a federal case out of small mistakes like that. That would be unnecessary. It's not like either error is a serious one, like, say, murder, arson, grand theft auto, or pretending to burp in gym class.

Okay, to be fair, that last item shouldn't be on the list -- middle schoolers fake burps all the time, and if you know any middle schoolers, it is probably one of the less-offensive things they do. But in May of 2011, Cleveland Middle School thought otherwise. 

A 13-year-old boy, known only to us as "F.M.," was a seventh-grader at the time, when this happened, per the Guardian:

According to the school, the boy was in physical education class when his teacher said he began making other students laugh with fake burps. The teacher sent him to the hallway, where he continued burping and leaning into the entranceway to the classroom so the students could hear.

So the officer placed the 13-year-old burper under arrest. Per a latter court decision (pdf), the officer "drafted the necessary incident report" as the school tried, but failed, to reach F.M.'s mother via phone. Then the officer and the prankster made their way out of school. The court's decision shares some details (and I've cleaned up a lot of internal citations to make this more readable):

After completing his paperwork, Officer Acosta said to F.M., “Let’s go to the car.” F.M. responded, “Okay,” and walked to Officer Acosta’s patrol car without incident. Although he had not “laid a finger on [F.M.] . . . up to th[at] point,” Officer Acosta told F.M. when they reached the vehicle that he would be performing a pat-down search “per APD policy.” F.M. indicated that he had no weapons or contraband on his person, and Officer Acosta found neither during the pat-down search. At that point, Officer Acosta handcuffed F.M., placed him in the patrol car, and drove him to the juvenile detention center.