Prosser High goes in lockdown over lighter

Ross A. Courtney
Yakima Herald-Republic

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PROSSER -- A novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a gun sent Prosser High School into a lockdown and brought out police Friday morning.

Taking it for a real gun, school staff put the school in a 25-minute lockdown at 10 a.m. after receiving a tip from a student, said Principal Kevin Lusk.

Some of the students were evacuated from the area where the suspected gun was, he said.

Prosser police took the student from a classroom into custody to the police station. That's when they learned the suspected gun was only a lighter, Lusk said, adding that the student did not intend the incident as prank.

However, the boy was sent home from the school as an "emergency expulsion," while administrators decide what, if any, discipline is warranted.

 

 



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Posted by ForYourInfo at 05/30/09 01:04PM        Post ID#: #4349

Poor judgment on the kids part. but expulsion? The point is too keep kids in school not give him an early vacation and possibly path to drop out.

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