NEW SCOTLAND — The Albany County District Attorney’s Office wants to investigate further, with the potential of felony-level charges, the case of four male Voorheesville students — David B. Cardona, 18; Robert E. Denman, 18; Ian G. Kundel, 17; and Shane S. Parry, 17 — accused of spreading goop, glitter, and garbage inside the school last month.

Assistant District Attorney Renée Merges requested Thursday that Judge David J. Wukitsch adjourn the arraignment of the students, where they would enter their pleas of “guilty” or “not guilty” to the charge of third-degree criminal trespass. That way, she said, the district attorney’s office would have the opportunity to pursue a grand-jury proceeding, where a statement taken from a co-defendant would be used. Merges declined to say who gave the statement.

"It appears that it may have been a burglary," Merges said at the bench.

Wukitsch said he nonetheless wouldn’t arraign the students who did not have attorneys present.

One of the students, Cardona, appeared with a lawyer, his uncle, Anthony Cardona, and pleaded not guilty.

Both Cardonas declined to comment outside of court, as did the other students and relatives who appeared.

The students, all of them varsity athletes, were arrested on April 24 after reviewing security-camera footage, the Albany County Sheriff’s Office arrest report says. School staff found the hallways had been covered with butter, barbecue sauce, and syrup, and lockers were shut with zip ties, the report says; special-education teacher Jessica Perazzelli slipped “and possibly broke her tailbone.”

Police believe Kundel and Parry went into Room 133 during a recycling and clean-up day at the school and unlocked one of the windows, where they returned with the two others early in the morning on April 24, according to the arrest report.

In the arrest report, police say the involvement of all four students was confirmed through interviews with Parry and Kundel.

The students are due back in New Scotland Town Court on June 4.