Crime & Safety
Police: Teen Charged With Possessing Knife at Jacobs Had no Intentions to Harm
The 16-year-old Carpentersville girl now faces a charge of possession or storage of a weapon on school grounds.
A student charged with possessing a weapon on school grounds had no intentions of harming anyone, police said Wednesday.
The 16-year-old Carpentersville girl left the school on May 2 without parent’s permission and was searched when she returned to the school, said Algonquin Deputy Police Chief Steve Kuzynowski. School officials found a pocketknife in her purse.
Since the school has a zero-tolerance policy on knives or other weapons on school grounds, police were called and the teen was taken into custody, Kuzynowski said.
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She was charged with unauthorized possession or storage of a weapon on school grounds, petitioned into juvenile court and then released to the custody of her mother.
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