{"id":418043,"date":"2026-08-27T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:56:09","slug":"update-gun-found-at-sam-houston-high-stolen-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418043\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Gun found at Sam Houston High stolen from Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              UPDATE: Gun found at Sam Houston High stolen from Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:27 pm Wednesday, August 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office said a gun discovered Wednesday afternoon in the backpack of a Sam Houston High School student was stolen out of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Kayla Vincent said deputies were notified a student was possibly in possession of a firearm about 10 minutes before the bell rang to end the school day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe student was detained and upon further investigation a gun was located in the student\u2019s backpack,\u201d Vincent said.<\/p>\n<p>The student \u2014 18-year-old Ja\u2019Vonte E. Pete \u2014 was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center. He is charged with carrying a firearm by a student on school property and possession of a stolen firearm. His bond is pending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation is continuing, Vincent said, with the help of the\u00a0Calcasieu Parish School Board.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tEmail newsletter signup &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanpress.com\/services\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n<img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Newletter_signUp_Small.png\" alt=\"Newsletter SignUp\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Gun found at Sam Houston High stolen from Texas Published 10:27 pm Wednesday, August 26, 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14211,56,58,57,145669],"class_list":["post-418043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-gun","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sam-houston-high"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}