Student Arrested For Threatening Administrator

Teenager associated with Sure
ños is arrested after fight with student associated with
Norteños 
Morgan Hill – A 14-year-old Britton Middle School student was arrested after he threatened an administrator at the school, police said.

Officer Kyle Christensen was called to the school Thursday morning after someone reported the student carrying a concealed weapon, possibly a knife. No knife was found, Morgan Hill Cmdr. Joe Sampson said, and the student was told to calm down and return to class. 

“This is a relatively new student, who is openly affiliated with Sureños,” Sampson said. “I understand there has been some tension on the campus since he started school there.”

Later on Thursday, Christensen was called to return to the campus because of a report the student had been fighting with another student.

An alleged Sureño had apparently instigated a fight with the new student by pushing the student into a desk in a dispute over gang issues, Sampson said.

An assistant principal broke up the fight and separated the two students.

When the assistant principal took the new student to the office and told him he was suspended, the student became enraged and cursed at her, Sampson said. She told the student she would have to call the police. He then “took a stance,” as if he was going to strike her, and she called police to request Christensen return to campus, police said.

The student was taken to Juvenile Hall on suspicion of battery and threatening a school official. 

Despite the report of tension on campus, this is the first time Sampson said he was aware of gang-related trouble since the beginning of the school year.