LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Clark County College District police seized nearly three dozen firearms throughout this previous college yr, discovering them in school rooms, backpacks, and even college students’ houses.
Officers confiscated a complete of 35 weapons from Aug. 2024 to Could 2025, in keeping with the Clark County College District Police Division. That may be a lower in comparison with the earlier college yr, the place 53 had been discovered.
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Many of the firearms officers situated within the 2024-2025 yr had been in excessive colleges. Nevertheless, in a couple of cases, center schoolers had been caught with firearms.
Police went to JD Smith Center College situated in North Las Vegas on Mar. 24 after an alarm was activated.
In accordance with an arrest report, directors discovered a gun on a scholar after looking him primarily based on a suspicion. He was already on probation.
CCSDPD mentioned officers solely discovered one spherical within the journal; 4 different rounds had been reported lacking.
On Mar. 7, officers had been dispatched to Cimarron Excessive College. Directors had situated a pink gun that was hidden in a scholar’s backpack.
In accordance with police, the gun had one spherical within the chamber and three within the journal.
On Mar. 7, officers had been dispatched to Cimarron Excessive College. Directors had situated a pink gun that was hidden in a scholar’s backpack. (KLAS)
The coed instructed police he was “door checking vehicles in the nearby apartments last week and he came across an unlocked vehicle in which he found and searched a purse that was inside the vehicle. He located and took the gun and decided to bring it to school today,” in keeping with an arrest report.
8 Information Now additionally obtained a video from CCSD exhibiting a youngster at Spring Valley Excessive College working round campus late final yr.
The coed had a gun with a number of rounds in his backpack, and the gun didn’t have a serial quantity, in keeping with an arrest report.
College police had been tipped off on March 27 to a scholar at Legacy Excessive College posting images on Instagram holding a gun and a liquor bottle.
Police mentioned when officers searched him, he did not have the gun. He instructed officers it was his mom’s gun that she saved in a secure.
College police had been tipped off on March 27 to a scholar at Legacy Excessive College posting images on Instagram holding a gun and a liquor bottle. (KLAS)
He “…then spontaneously uttered that it was easy to break the lock of the box…stated that he did it with a flathead screwdriver and that all he needed to do was push down on the lock and it popped and broke open,” in keeping with an arrest report.
The district’s data confirmed Legacy Excessive College was linked to eight gun confiscations within the 2024-2025 college yr. A number of of the scholars arrested at Legacy had gang affiliations.
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Sixteen college students had been arrested within the 2024-2025 college yr for possessing weapons, in keeping with CCSD data.
