A 17 year-old male student at Mingus Union High School was charged with several felonies after school administration searched him and his vehicle on Tuesday, May 7, and found him to be in possession of drugs and an unloaded shotgun. Police stated that at no time were any threats made to the school nor students.
The drugs included marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. The drugs and single-shot shotgun were located inside of his vehicle.
The student reportedly said he forgot about the shotgun because it was reportedly under the seat, police stated.
The student was charged with possession of dangerous drugs for sale, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a weapon during a drug offense and possession of a deadly weapon on school grounds.
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Police did not indicate why the boy and vehicle were initially searched.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
