A 17-year-old student was arrested Friday after a BB gun was found inside his backpack at Basic High School in Henderson, according to school police.
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Police, who announced the arrest of Matthew Bidart, 27, on Friday, said the incident for which he was taken into custody did not appear to involve contact with students.
The Never Give Up Youth Healing Center, a youth residential psychiatric facility, formerly shared the property of the now-shuttered private boarding school Northwest Academy.
The third-grader who found his mother’s gun in his backpack at Bracken Elementary School earlier this week told police that there “are a lot of weapons at his house.”
Clark County School District police arrested Joshua Youngblood after reviewing social media messages he allegedly exchanged with a minor student.
An 11-year-old student at Del Webb Middle School was charged Monday with having a gun on school property and making threats to fellow students.
No injuries were reported, and there was no reports of weapons used during the violence at Del Sol Academy of the Performing Arts, Clark County School District police said.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in District Court, alleges that Maysen Melton tackled the plaintiff around May 2016 and sodomized her against her will.
A 17-year-old girl who graduated from Coronado High School returned to campus on Thursday and was arrested after allegedly attempting to sell marijuana, school police said.
A College of Southern Nevada student who was arrested Aug. 28 told police he worked for a rifle manufacturer.
An 18-year-old man is facing a felony charge after threats were made on social media against Legacy High School in North Las Vegas, the Clark County School District announced Monday.
A male student was arrested Thursday at Chaparral High School on charges including robbery and assault — both with a deadly weapon.
Two northwest valley schools were temporarily locked down Wednesday afternoon while officers looked for two people involved in a carjacking, Las Vegas police said.
Years before Northwest Academy was closed amid an ongoing child abuse investigation, officials from four Nevada communities removed their students from the facility.
An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
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