Students charged with having unloaded revolver at Dade High

TRENTON, Georgia (WDEF) – The safety of our children at school is on the minds of Americans these days.

And, for the second time this week, officers have been called to Dade county high school because of trouble on campus.

Earlier this week an 18-year old female student was arrested for scribbling a threat on a restroom wall at Dade county high school.
Today, it was two boys.

SGT. CHAD PAYNE, Dade County Sheriff’s Dept. “We were notified that the assistant principal at the high school had observed some odd behavior with some students, he got a gut feeling that something wasn’t right so he began investigating those odd behaviors, and in that course he located a firearm on a student. And he immediately contacted the principal which contacted our sheriff’s dept. and the Sheriff. ”

Sgt. Payne tells us the investigation is still underway and that some details cannot be released yet. But, for some it was another un-nerving situation at a school.

Both Jayden Folds and Thomas Bradley have been charged with Possession of a Firearm on School Property (felony) and Disrupting Public School (misd).

School officials say one of them brought an unloaded .38 revolver to school to sell to the other.

But Dade officers are quick to reassure parents and students that there was no threat.

SGT. CHAD PAYNE “There was no reason to believe that anybody was in danger, there was no ammunition located with the firearm it was unloaded. The particular circumstances I can’t get into, but there was no threat whatsoever to anybody.”

Eighteen year old Lexus Couch of Rising Fawn is charged with making terroristic threats and disrupting a public school. That’s a felony. The message on the restroom wall threatened to “shoot everybody at the school’.
That investigation is still underway.