ELYRIA — A 16-year-old Amherst boy admitted Thursday that he had stabbed his grandmother during a July 31 argument.

The admission constitutes a guilty plea to charges of felonious assault, domestic violence, criminal damaging, intimidation and violation of probation, said Assistant Lorain County Juvenile Court Administrator Dave Lucey.

The boy will be sentenced in November and could be sent to a state juvenile detention facility until he turns 21.

The boy stabbed his grandmother during an argument about whether he and a friend could stay at his great-grandmother’s Lorain home.

After stabbing the grandmother, who had custody of him, police said the boy cut of an electronic monitoring device on his ankle and fled the house.

He called police a few hours later and offered to turn himself in but only if he would be charged as an adult in the case. The officer on the phone with the boy used caller ID to figure out the boy was calling from his great-grandmother’s home and sent other officers to arrest him.

After he was arrested, the boy threatened to kill police officers, steal and sell their guns, have sex with an officer’s wife and set fire to a police car, according to police.

The grandmother spent several days in the hospital for the stabbing injury.

The boy’s great-grandmother told court officials in August that the boy had threatened his grandmother during a meeting with court staff a few days before the stabbing. But an investigation by Court Administrator Doug Messer concluded that the boy never made a specific threat and staff and family members were concerned he might run away, not that he would hurt the grandmother.

The boy’s attorney, James Barilla, did not return a call seeking comment.

Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.

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