BUT... ARRESTED? In my day ( you remember -- back when you had to physically GET UP to change the television channel) you spent a couple afternoons sanding and reshellacing desks for this. But handcuffed? I have a lot of respect for NYPD - they have been very helpful and supportive to me personally - but this is a wee bit much. 13-Year-Old Arrested For Defacing School Desk Promoting a civil public school environment is important, but we had no idea that the price you paid for writing on a desk could be so severe. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and arrested by the police for writing "okay" on a desk at her Dyker Heights school. WCBS 2 spoke to the Chelsea Fraser and her outraged mother Diana Silva, who said, "I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Yeah, what happened to detention?" Fraser was charged with criminal mischief and t...