Casper City Council to Revisit Tobacco Ordinance
The Casper City Council decided Tuesday to redo its ordinance about the age at which someone can buy and use tobacco and nicotine products to be put back for a vote.
Earlier then defeated proposed revisions would have aligned the Casper Municipal Code to changes in state law that, as of July 1, prohibited the sale, purchase, possession and use of nicotine products by anyone under 21. A violation would be a misdemeanor.
But on Dec. 1, the proposed changes lost on a 5-4 vote with some opposition council members saying raising the age from 18 to 21 was arbitrary and ridiculous like laws about the legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages.
Casper PD: Student Brought Gun to Kelly Walsh High School
Casper police on Wednesday morning arrested a student after showing a firearm to another student at Kelly Walsh High School, according to a news release from the Casper Police Department.
The school resource officer received the report shortly after 9 a.m., immediately responded, found the suspected student and safely took the student into custody.
Police officers retrieved the firearm and determined it was unloaded.
The student was taken to the Casper Police Department to be interviewed.
Why the student brought the firearm to school remains under investigation.
As of the time of the news release at 12:50 p.m., the student had been arrested for one recommended felony charge of aggravated assault.
Casper PD: Student Brought Gun to Kelly Walsh High School
Casper police on Wednesday morning arrested a student after showing a firearm to another student at Kelly Walsh High School, according to a news release from the Casper Police Department.
The school resource officer received the report shortly after 9 a.m., immediately responded, found the suspected student and safely took the student into custody.
Police officers retrieved the firearm and determined it was unloaded.
The student was taken to the Casper Police Department to be interviewed.
Why the student brought the firearm to school remains under investigation.
As of the time of the news release at 12:50 p.m., the student had been arrested for one recommended felony charge of aggravated assault.