Police in Anchorage say there have been two recent incidents with weapons in local schools.
According to the Anchorage Police Department, on Monday morning staff at Benny Benson, a secondary school in East Anchorage, learned that two students planned “to be involved in a fight.” After a search, two handguns and ammunition were found in a vehicle belonging to one of the students, which was parked on campus. Both of the students were arrested, and charges have been forwarded to the Division of Juvenile Justice.
In a separate incident last Thursday afternoon at Government Hill Elementary, School Resource Officers heard “multiple student reports of a gun on school grounds,” according to APD. Upon investigating, they confiscated a replica of a gun that was not capable of firing. Charges against the student were sent to DJJ.
Zachariah Hughes reports on city & state politics, arts & culture, drugs, and military affairs in Anchorage and South Central Alaska.
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