EDMONDS — Trespassers at Edmonds-Woodway High School have caused two disturbances on campus during school hours in the past two months.
Police have responded by citing two young people with criminal trespass and citing the mother of an Edmonds-Woodway student with disorderly conduct.
The biggest disturbance happened Oct. 8, when a student at the school was intimidated and threatened by a group of girls, most of whom were Edmonds-Woodway students.
Some were family members, and one of the family members was not a student, according to the police report.
The student responded by calling her sister and her mother, who then arrived on campus, one after the other, and began shouting and swearing and threatening the first group.
In both trespassing incidents, the high school’s full-time police officer, resource officer Tom Smith, was quickly on the scene, and nobody was hurt.
But Smith acknowledges trespassers do get onto Edmonds-Woodway’s campus occasionally.
“It happens from time to time in our buildings — we get people we don’t want in the building for one reason or another,” Smith said.
Sometimes people don’t check in at the office, but it doesn’t get to the level of a police report, he said.
The two incidents in the past two months both attracted police attention.
In the Oct. 8 disturbance, there had been a history of threats between the girls. While police are unclear who is the victim and who is the perpetrator, they know there had been talk of a fight, police records show.
In the group of girls was a 15-year-old Scriber Lake High School student. She was not supposed to be on Edmonds-Woodway’s campus.
Smith arrived after the initial disturbance and helped calm things down.
Then the victim’s mother arrived. She yelled at the group of girls, who got upset and yelled back. She also used threatening body language and said things that could be interpreted as a threat, the report said.
Smith escorted the adult from the campus to prevent an assault, the report said. As the woman was leaving, she yelled and caused another scene. She was cited with disorderly conduct.
When Smith discovered the Scriber Lake High School student was not an Edmonds-Woodway student, he arrested her for investigation of criminal trespass.
Edmonds-Woodway’s earlier incident with criminal trespass happened in September.
A woman, 18, came to campus and entered the attendance office through the side door, rather than lining up at the window as students do. She tried to catch the attention of a student in a staff member’s office and ignored staff members asking what she was doing.
When Smith approached her, she used abusive language, grabbed his shirt and acted agitated.
He arrested her for investigation of criminal trespass.
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