{"id":151934,"date":"2026-03-04T03:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:13:15","slug":"teen-arrested-with-loaded-gun-in-his-waistband-in-lower-east-side-school-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151934\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested with loaded gun in his waistband in Lower East Side school: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lower East Side school went into lockdown Tuesday as police and NYPD School Safety agents arrested a 16-year-old boy found carrying a loaded firearm inside the school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators at <a href=\"https:\/\/cascadeshs.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cascades High School<\/a> on Forsyth St. near Stanton St. received an anonymous tip that the teen had a gun in his possession around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>As the school went into lockdown, cops and school safety agents found the teen and confronted him.<\/p>\n<p>The officers scuffled with the boy and wrestled him to the ground before taking him into custody, a source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm was found in the youth\u2019s waistband.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody. No injuries were reported, and criminal charges weren\u2019t immediately filed.<\/p>\n<p>Cascades High School does not have metal detectors inside the school, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.<\/p>\n<p>The two had been arguing when the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/boy-12-stabbed-in-arm-at-bronx-middle-school-11-year-old-girl-in-custody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> girl stabbed her classmate with a kitchen knife<\/a> at Public School\/Intermediate School 218 Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School, on Gerard Ave. near E. 167th St., around 11 a.m. on Monday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken from the school to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was charged with assault as a juvenile and released to her parents. She\u2019s expected to face the charges in Family Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lower East Side school went into lockdown Tuesday as police and NYPD School Safety agents arrested a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-151934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}