WELLSVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Wellsville Secondary School student was arrested Thursday morning after a rifle and ammo were found inside a vehicle.
According to Dave Foster, Superintendent of Wellsville Central Schools, a school administrator saw a rifle and ammo in the front seat of an unattended vehicle in the senior parking lot across the street from the Wellsville Secondary School. Police were called and the school was put into a shelter-in-place.
Foster told 7 News a student, who is over 18 and was inside the school at the time, was arrested by Wellsville Village police.
The shelter-in-place was lifted and operations returned to normal at the school after police cleared the scene.
Later Thursday afternoon police announced the student that was arrested was 19-year-old Trenton D. Jefferds who was charged with criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. According to police, Jefferds was arraigned and remanded to the Allegany County Jail pending conditions brought forth by the Court.
