Published April 01. 2026 09:52AM<\/p>\n
In a press release dated March 25, authorities announced \u201ca juvenile was found with a loaded gun at Emmaus High School.\u201d<\/p>\n
The juvenile is described as a student at the school.<\/p>\n
The juvenile was taken into custody and faces felony charges in juvenile court, according to a press release from Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan.<\/p>\n
An East Penn School District email shared with The Press detailed the incident as follows:<\/p>\n
At approximately 10:20 a.m. March 25, during \u201can administrative search of a student\u2019s belongings, school officials discovered a loaded firearm inside a student\u2019s school bag.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the district attorney\u2019s office, the search concerned an unrelated situation.<\/p>\n
The firearm was described as a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol considered a \u201cghost gun\u201d because it does not have a serial number and was not sold \u201cthrough the normal course of firearms commerce,\u201d according to authorities.<\/p>\n
The Emmaus Police Department School Resource Officer at the high school confiscated the weapon.<\/p>\n
No one was hurt.<\/p>\n
The student did not display or make threats with the weapon.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt no time during the recovery was the weapon brandished, nor were any threats made toward students or staff,\u201d according to the announcement from the school district.<\/p>\n
Emmaus High School is located at 500 Macungie Ave. in the borough.<\/p>\n
Counseling services are available to students and staff through the school district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 01. 2026 09:52AM In a press release dated March 25, authorities announced \u201ca juvenile was found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-154355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}