Arizona high school student arrested for bringing AR-15, ammo to campus

A 15-year-old high school student in Phoenix, Arizona was taken into custody after he was allegedly caught with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and ammunition at a high school, police said.

Phoenix Police said the Bostrom High Schoolstudent was arrested at around 1 p.m. Friday for bringing the firearm onto school grounds.

The administrators immediately placed the school on lockdown and alerted the police, who then confiscated the weapon and arrested the student. 

“When they arrived, officers detained the male student in the school’s main office. The student was found to be in possession of a semi-automatic rifle. Additional ammunition was found in the student’s backpack and lunch box,” police said, FOX 10 Phoenix reported.