Overview
- The school resource officer removed his gun in a restroom Monday before dismissal and later found it missing after students left, prompting an extensive search that found nothing.
- Following Tuesday’s class cancellation, District 214 said a person of interest was in custody and reopened the campus Wednesday with extra police on site.
- Arlington Heights police on Wednesday charged Juan Pablo Sanchez Jaramillo, 18, with unlawful possession in a school and said he gave the gun to a 17-year-old who faces theft and weapons counts.
- Detectives executed a search warrant in a nearby community and recovered the gun’s rail-mounted flashlight, yet the handgun itself has not been found, and police are asking for tips.
- The officer is on administrative leave under an internal affairs review, and Jaramillo is due in court Thursday in Rolling Meadows.