CCSD police seize 35 guns during recent school year
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Clark County School District police seized almost three dozen firearms during this past school year, finding them in classrooms, backpacks, and even students' homes.
Officers confiscated a total of 35 guns from Aug. 2024 to May 2025, according to the Clark County School District Police Department. That is a decrease compared to the previous school year, where 53 were found.
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Most of the firearms officers located in the 2024-2025 year were in high schools. However, in a few instances, middle schoolers were caught with firearms.
Police went to JD Smith Middle School located in North Las Vegas on Mar. 24 after an alarm was activated.
According to an arrest report, administrators found a gun on a student after searching him based on a suspicion. He was already on probation.
CCSDPD said officers only found one round in the magazine; four other rounds were reported missing.
On Mar. 7, officers were dispatched to Cimarron High School. Administrators had located a pink gun that was hidden in a student's backpack.
According to police, the gun had one round in the chamber and three in the magazine.
The student told police he was 'door checking vehicles in the nearby apartments last week and he came across an unlocked vehicle in which he found and searched a purse that was inside the vehicle. He located and took the gun and decided to bring it to school today,' according to an arrest report.
8 News Now also obtained a video from CCSD showing a teenager at Spring Valley High School running around campus late last year.
The student had a gun with several rounds in his backpack, and the gun did not have a serial number, according to an arrest report.
School police were tipped off on March 27 to a student at Legacy High School posting photos on Instagram holding a gun and a liquor bottle.
Police said when officers searched him, he didn't have the gun. He told officers it was his mother's gun that she kept in a safe.
He '…then spontaneously uttered that it was easy to break the lock of the box…stated that he did it with a flathead screwdriver and that all he needed to do was push down on the lock and it popped and broke open,' according to an arrest report.
The district's records showed Legacy High School was connected to eight gun confiscations in the 2024-2025 school year. Several of the students arrested at Legacy had gang affiliations.
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Sixteen students were arrested in the 2024-2025 school year for possessing guns, according to CCSD records.
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