Criminal Damage is when a person recklessly defaces or damages property of another person. If the damages is less than $250, it is classified as a misdemeanor. If the damage is more than $250 but less than $2000, it is classified as a class 6 felony. If the damages is more than $2000 but less than $10,000 it is a class 5 felony. Lastly, if the damage is more than $10,000, it is a class 4 felony.

The reason that the class of felony is important is that in Arizona, a county attorney may request that a 14 year old who is a chronic felony offender be treated as an adult and subject to adult punishment which can included probation or prison. Juveniles who are sentenced to adult prison go to the adult prison but are housed in a seperate section. A chronic felony offender is someone who on 2 prior and seperate cases was found responsible/guilty of an offense that would be considered a felony if tried as an adult. In the juvenile was 15 or older, the county attorney shall file as an adult if the juvenile is a chronic felony offender.

Assuming the 14 year old has never been in trouble before, the judge will order him to pay for the damages he caused and he will then be sentenced to standard probation. If the 14 yr old has been in some trouble before, he will still have to pay for the damages and then may be placed on either standard or intensive probation or he can been committed to the Deparment of Juvenile Corrections and sent to a juvenile detention facility. Before the judge decides what the consequences will be, he will hear from the county attorney prosecuting the case, the probation department, the victim, and the juvenile.