Ok...I'm just gonna start the beginning of this for ya. On the 18th of February. I was workin on replacing an axle and fuel line on my truck in town at my uncles house, he has a better variety of tools then we do, and at the time had heated garage. Now that night neither of the parts we ordered were the correct ones, axle or fuel line so about 9:30 i went home in my truck and changed clothes and kinda washed up to go back into town and see who was there. Well my parents bowl every Friday night so i stopped down there, met up with a few guys i get along with, granted i rarely hang out with them but we decided to go up to a friends house and on the way up there they told me some plan the had to play a prank on our football coach that nobody likes. He's an assbag. Now the prank was to take a dead raccoon and light it on fire near his house. So we got gasoline and there were three guys goin up there, and at the last second i decided to go with. We get up close to his house and pour gasoline on the coon, and start to head up there. I get up on the front steps, no one was in the upstairs where they could've seen us and they lay the coon down and light it, i nail the doorbell and we take off. Now on his house the main floor sits above ground level so he has about a 3 ft by 3 ft landing, then 3 steps that lead down, to a 3 ft wide sidewalk, so the coon was at least 6-8 feet from his house. Now on the 11th of March I get arrested and sent to a juvenile detention for this, for four days, as does another kid. Now when I talked to the cop he said his information was correct, and that we were the only other two up there, BULLSHIT. There were two other kids so if anyone seen us they seen all FOUR of us, but i didnt' want to rat on the other two cuz one is a good friend, and if i told on the other he'd tell on my other friend, bla blah. So here it goes now, that I have three choices.
I either
a) plead innocent of the charges.
b) remain juvenile and go on strict probation(stays off of adult record) but if i at any time in the 6 months screw up it goes to adult record and such
and c) i say fuck it, pay the fines which will be anywhere from 200-300 U.S. dollars and it goes on adult record, permanently
the two charges are Wreckless Use of Fire, and Trespassing, not that big but!....
My main concern is if it goes on adult record, can this stop me from joining the Navy? I'd very much like to join the Navy, and possible train as a Navy S.E.A.L., hey, the wreckless use of fire might come in hand there right?
I'm 17, turn 18 on June 22 so this is why they might try me as an adult because i'm so close, now it's my choice what I do, and I'm seriously concidering just paying the fines and taking the record. For the plans i have in life after high school the Navy should be the only one that can really be screwed up because of this. I'd like to then to to Wyotech and onto some car tuner possibly. Now my lawyer wants me to seriously conider keeping it off my permanent record, but i dont think i could do the 6 month probation without screwing up. and if it's under 300 dollars yank yank, i can pay for that.
So, now after all that reading my questions are....
Will the charges going on my permanent record screw my joining of the Navy?
And what do you guys all think I should do?