Antelope Valley Athletes Sentenced to Community Work After Assault

Four reserves on the Antelope Valley High basketball team have been sentenced to community service after being found guilty of misdemeanor assault in connection with an on-campus incident in December.

Kevin Junior, 17; Joseph Montgomery, 16; Herbert Sellers, 17, and Martine Stokes, 17, were sentenced Wednesday in Antelope Valley Juvenile Court. Junior was sentenced to 100 hours of community service, Montgomery to 60 hours, and Sellers and Stokes each were sentenced to 40 hours.

The four also were given credit for time already served. They had spent five days in Juvenile Hall and were under house arrest for at least a month during which they were forbidden to leave home except to attend school. That punishment carried extra weight, according to Juvenile Court Commissioner Victor Reichman, because the four were suspended from school from Dec. 15 until Feb. 8, when the Antelope Valley Union High School District reinstated them.

Reichman said that their sentences were eased because none had prior records and the incident was not gang-related.

The four had surrounded a car containing four male students in the school parking lot and demanded money.

No one was injured and no money was taken.