FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Police placed Merced High on lock down on Monday morning after a student brought a loaded gun magazine on campus.
A student notified a Merced High School Campus Liaison that they found the magazine in the bushes on the campus but did not tell the Liaison that they were the one that placed it there fearing violating school rules.
According to their release, Merced Police investigating learned that the student actually found it on the way to school.
School officials placed the school on lock down once notified of the gun magazine being found on the campus.
Merced PD says the lock down was lifted around 8:45am Monday morning.
The student was not charged with a crime and is cooperating with school officials, police said.
Police are checking the area where the gun magazine was found to see there were any indications that a crime was committed.
The Merced Police are asking anyone with any information regarding these cases to contact Detective Sannadan at (209) 385-7773, or the Merced Police Department Tipster Line at (209) 385-4725.
The public can send information via anonymous text messages to police department by dialing “TIP411” (847411) and including the word “Comvip” as the “keyword” in the text message.
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