YOUNGSTOWN — A charge of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle filed against Ke’ Twan L. Boudrey, 18, was bound over Friday to a Mahoning County grand jury.

Boudrey waived a preliminary hearing on Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court. The charge is a low-level felony.

Boudrey and Dante Thompkins Miller, who also is 18, were both scheduled for preliminary hearings on weapons charges Friday, but the hearing for Thompkins Miller was postponed to 9:30 a.m. March 18.

Thompkins Miller is a student at Youngstown Cardinal Mooney High School who was charged with three counts of illegal conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon in a school safety zone. A concerned citizen reported at 10:23 a.m. Feb. 23 that Thompkins Miller had three guns at Mooney.

Youngstown police officers quickly responded to the Erie Street school and investigated. After talking to Thompkins Miller, officers found three weapons in the student’s back pack and took him into custody. The incident led to a lockdown of less than an hour that morning.

Thompkins Miller was released from the Mahoning County jail Monday on $10,500 bond on the three low-level felonies.

Boudrey, a student at Youngstown East High School, was arrested the same day. But his arrest came about 2:30 p.m. after Youngstown police made a traffic stop on the West Side involving a car in which Boudrey was a passenger.

Officers charged the driver of the vehicle with a turn-signal violation. But while officers were talking to the driver, they smelled the odor of marijuana in the car and found marijuana flakes in a plastic bag during a search, according to a police report.

They also found a gun in a backpack in the back seat, where Boudrey was seated. Boudrey admitted the back pack was his. Officers then asked Boudrey if he had the firearm in his possession in school that day at East High School, and Boudrey said he had the bookbag, but the gun was not inside of it at school, the report states.

Officers also asked Boudrey if he made any stops between the traffic stop and when he left East High School that day, and Boudrey said no.

An officer also asked the driver if he allowed Boudrey to leave the gun inside his car during school, and the driver said “he did not know about any firearm.”

A Youngstown police captain, asked if officers were on high alert in the afternoon Feb. 23 because of the Mooney situation, said he did not know, but their actions sounded like how officers would respond regardless of whether an earlier incident took place.

Boudrey was released from the Mahoning County jail on his own recognizance Feb. 25 after his arraignment. That means he did not have to pay anything.

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