Police: Boy, 6, had loaded gun in school

A 6-year-old boy brought a loaded handgun to Kenwood Elementary School and showed it to kids in his backpack, Springfield Police Chief Lee Graf said Thursday.

A teacher noticed, Graf said, and took the weapon and the student to the principal’s office. After talking to him, the chief said the child was walking to school, opened a door of a vehicle that was unlocked, found the weapon and took it.

The boy will be charged with bringing a weapon onto school property and was taken to juvenile detention. didn’t want to take a space needed by someone else.

Pratt talked with Clark in Common Pleas Court about two letters Clark sent during the past week regarding the order to participate in the program as part of a five-year community control sentence.

“The court wanted to help you,” the judge said before ordering Clark to serve six months in the Ohio Reformatory for Women.

“I just want to get this over with so I can get on with my life,” Clark said. She said she saw MonDay as a program for someone addicted to drugs such as heroin, adding, “I don’t think it is right for me.”

Clark was charged with the Nov. 11 possession of three stolen medications, including morphine pills. She was on probation at the time of the offense after pleading to another charge involving theft of liquid morphine from the same relative in June 2017, according to court documents.

NANCY BOWMAN Kettering Jail on suspicion of felonious assault, resisting arrest and DUI, according to records. The report indicated that police found suspected marijuana in the vehicle Price was driving.

The pursuit started as a traffic stop around 12:50 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Dogwood Trail at Shrubb Drive in Kettering, officials said.

The suspect fled the traffic stop, with Kettering police initially terminating the pursuit, but after the Price ran a red light, the pursuit resumed, said Lt. Lee Sanders of Kettering Police.