Two more Santa Rosa teens arrested for bringing knives to two separate schools
SANTA ROSA - Just weeks after a fatal stabbing at Montgomery High School and a day after administrators from the school were placed on leave, two students from two different Santa Rosa schools were arrested for bringing knives to campus.
The two arrests occurred on Tuesday at Slater Middle School and Elsie Allen High School, respectively.
Santa Rosa police said in a Facebook post that the weapon at Slater Middle School was found in the morning when school officials searched a 14 year old student's bag on suspicion of bringing drugs to school. Marijuana was found, but also a knife with a five inch blade.
School administrators immediately contacted police, who arrived and arrested the student for possessing a weapon on a school campus. Because of his age, the student's name will not be released. Police said it currently is not known why he brought the knife to school.
At Elsie Allen High School, a knife was discovered on the floor of a classroom by a teacher in the early afternoon. Administrators questioned students until they learned who brought the weapon -- a 3 inch folding knife -- to campus.
In that incident, the offending student was a 15-year-old boy who will remain anonymous. Like the earlier incident, there is currently no known motive for the student to bring the weapon to the school.
No students or faculty members were harmed in either incident.
The arrests come after not only the deadly incident at Montgomery High School earlier this month that took the life of 16-year-old junior Jayden Pienta, but a rash of weapon-related arrests at Santa Rosa schools. Most recently, Santa Rosa police said two more students were arrested Saturday for having knives at the school.
Authorities announced Monday they learned about the two students being sent home when they were caught with knives on the Montgomery High campus Friday afternoon after a parent called and informed authorities of the incident after the parent was notified by a letter from school administrators. Police investigated the incident and arrested the students, a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old.
