YOUNGSTOWN Rayen student with gun gets suspension

The superintendent and principal have recommended that the student be expelled for a year, a school official said.
YOUNGSTOWN -- City school officials say Thursday's arrest of a student on a charge of carrying a gun into The Rayen School is atypical.
The school district conducts metal detector searches at each of its three high schools, three middle schools and one junior high school at least twice a year and as many as 10 times a year, said Chuck Zillo, director of community relations.
"The searches in the last year or two have come up relatively clean," he said. "It's very uncommon that we come up with a weapon like this."
A Rayen 10th-grader was apprehended Thursday when police found a loaded handgun in his pocket during a routine metal detector search.
What happened: Zillo said police searched the 16-year-old after he entered the school, saw the metal detectors and police and backed away in an attempt to leave the building.
No one was hurt and the student made no threats to use the firearm, Zillo said.
The student has been suspended for 10 days.
Superintendent Ben McGee and Rayen Principal Claude Bentley have recommended that he be expelled for a year, Zillo said.
The student also was arrested on a charge of bringing a weapon to school and taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center, Zillo said.