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Police Called About Utensil Brought To School

Officer Takes Boy, 11, Away From Kansas City School In Patrol Car

POSTED: 10:00 am CST January 9, 2009
UPDATED: 1:11 pm CST January 9, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police took a 11-year-old boy into custody Friday when he showed up to school with a non-lethal kitchen utensil that he said he forgot to leave at home, a school district spokeswoman said.

The sixth-grader didn't threaten anyone, but procedure at the Southwest Early College Campus required that police be called, said Andre Riley, the Kansas City, Mo., School District spokeswoman.

A police officer was seen outside the school putting the boy into a patrol car.
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