Lockdown Produces Pair of Arrests

10 TV: A local high school was placed on a level 2 lockdown Friday afternoon after reports of a firearm at the school. Whetstone High School, 4405 Scenic Dr., Columbus, went on lockdown shortly after noon. The lockdown was lifted at about 2:20 p.m.

CPD confirmed two students were taken into custody and one firearm was removed from the school’s property. The students taken into custody were both males in their junior year. Officials said one of the students brought a firearm to the school.

Apparently, when word got out about a gun in the building, the first student gave the firearm to the second student who later was arrested at a COTA bus stop on High Street, according to officials.

The 18-year-old students both were arrested on felony charges, and school expulsion proceedings were scheduled, officials said. The student body was allowed to leave the building at the end of their school day.

A level 2 lockdown means that students are stay to in the classrooms where they were in when lockdown began. They will not change classes. The students’ identities were not released, and no more information was available immediately.