Newtown Middle School Teacher Arrested For Bringing A Loaded Gun To School

Police arrested science instructor Jason Adams at 9 a.m. Wednesday after he brought a hidden firearm into the Newtown Middle School in Connecticut, police said.

As the school system was facing a two-hour delay Wednesday due to some staff meetings, students were not in the building when another teacher spotted him carrying a gun, and alerted the officials.

Immediately, the sight of the gun triggered off memories of the December 2012 massacre, in which 20 first-graders and six staffers got massacred in the town's Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The 10-year teaching veteran, Adams, aged 46, was taken into custody by the armed security officer in the school. He was then arrested by the local cops.

He was removed from his job and charged with carrying a weapon on the school grounds.

"The Newtown Police Department is confident that security precautions put in place prior to the incident were instrumental in the quick and appropriate response," said Newtown Police Chief James Viadero.

He was released without posting bail and told to appear in Danbury Superior Court April 20, according to courant.

Even though the teacher had a permit, he followed an illegal activity by carrying a loaded gun into a school. The school policy has prohibited possession of a gun within the school.

Sandy Hook Promise, a group comprising several victims' parents after the 2012 shooting, said: "We are dismayed that this could happen in a school, especially one in a community as traumatized as Newtown. We commend the Newtown Police Department and Newtown Public Schools for their thoughtful handling of the arrest of science teacher Jason Adams for violating the law by bringing a weapon onto school grounds."