{"id":25172,"date":"2019-11-08T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=25172"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:46:40","slug":"student-arrested-following-reports-of-weapon-at-aurora-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/student-arrested-following-reports-of-weapon-at-aurora-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Student arrested following reports of weapon at Aurora High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A student has been arrested after a Tuesday incident at\nAurora High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>York Regional Police say a male student was apprehended\nfollowing a report that he was in a possession of a gun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe responded to a weapons call at Aurora High School\nthis afternoon,\u201d confirmed Constable Andy Pattenden. \u201cWe received a report that\nthere was a student at the school who was believed to have a gun. When officers\narrived, the school was placed on lockdown. The student was located by officers\noutside the school, but still on school property. He was placed under arrest\nand no gun located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurther investigation led officers to a residence nearby\nthe school. With the assistance of officers with our Emergency Response Unit,\nthe occupants of the home were ordered out and taken into custody. A gun was\nlocated inside the house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The York Region District School Board said Aurora High\nSchool (AHS) was placed in a lockdown situation from 1.40 \u2013 1.55 p.m., and,\nafter the lockdown was lifted, the school went into a hold and secure\nprecaution until approximately 2.30 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you to all of our students and staff today who\nacted calmly and followed our lockdown protocol and turned off their cell\nphones,\u201d said AHS Principal George Voumvakis in a letter to the school\ncommunity. \u201cThis helps to keep everyone in our buildings safe during a lockdown\nand prevents information being shared that could compromise police\ninvestigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSupports will be available at the school tomorrow for any students who wish to access them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>By Brock Weir <\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F25172&#038;t=Student%20arrested%20following%20reports%20of%20weapon%20at%20Aurora%20High&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F25172&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Student%20arrested%20following%20reports%20of%20weapon%20at%20Aurora%20High\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F25172&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Student%20arrested%20following%20reports%20of%20weapon%20at%20Aurora%20High&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F25172\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student has been arrested after a Tuesday incident at Aurora High School. York Regional Police say a male student was apprehended following a report that he was in a possession of a gun. \u201cWe responded to a weapons call at Aurora High School this afternoon,\u201d confirmed Constable Andy Pattenden. \u201cWe received a report that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6y0","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 10:45:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}