A 16-year-old who violated his probation conditions was jailed for nine months.Taaj Muhammad was put on probation last November after he admitted taking a chain from another teen.Since then he’s been detained by police on two occasions and rarely attended school.And although Muhammad had been ordered by the courts to stay with his great-grandmother in Sandys, she now wanted him out of her house, Magistrates’ Court heard.Muhammad took the $175 chain from a 15-year-old boy.He denied showing the teenager a pistol when he tried to get the chain back, and saying: “F**k you. Payday.”He said he stole the chain because he liked it.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner released Muhammad on two years’ probation with multiple conditions — that he continue studying at the Technology Skills Centre, obey a curfew and abstain from drugs and alcohol.He was also ordered to stay with his great-grandmother in Sandys instead of his grandmother in St George’s.The court heard yesterday that police had since detained Muhammad twice — once for being drunk in Hamilton and once because of an altercation at his mother’s home.His great-grandmother requested that he no longer stay with her. She said Muhammad refused to go to school and was disrespectful.The Technology Skills Centre reported the teen had missed 18 of the last 43 days of school and had been late another 18.Mr Warner lamented the lack of sentencing options for young people, saying: “There must be an effective way of dealing with it. Rather than having more, we have less.“This is a case where I don’t think it would be in the public interest to allow this young man to continue as before. The problem is he has refused to accept the intervention that is there to help him.“The only next step is that he needs to be supervised, and the only way is to lock him up, crudely put, according to law.”Mr Warner sentenced Muhammad to nine months of correctional training at the Co-Ed Facility.