{"id":293973,"date":"2026-04-30T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:21:46","slug":"student-caught-with-loaded-ghost-gun-at-oc-high-school-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293973\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Caught With Loaded &#8216;Ghost Gun&#8217; At OC High School, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A La Quinta High School student was arrested Tuesday morning in Westminster after fleeing the campus and being found with a loaded firearm, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 10 a.m. on April 28, when a school resource officer responded to a report of a student vaping on campus. <\/p>\n<p>The student was taken to the principal&#8217;s office without issue, but refused a search of his bag and ran from the school, Westminster police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>The student was detained off campus and, during a search, a loaded firearm was bound in the student&#8217;s bag, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A check of the weapon later revealed it did not have a serial number, with police identifying the weapon as a &#8220;ghost gun,&#8221; according to the Westminster Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The student was booked into Orange County Juvenile Hall on weapons-related charges. <\/p>\n<p>His identity was not released.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A La Quinta High School student was arrested Tuesday morning in Westminster after fleeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-293973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}