YOUNGSTOWN — Jaime Santana-Garcia, 21, was arraigned on a first-degree misdemeanor child endangering charge Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court for allegedly pulling a knife on a sixth-grade student on a Youngstown City Schools bus April 11, 2025, while Santana-Garcia was working as a school district bus aide.

Santana-Garcia turned himself in to police on Tuesday and was taken to the Mahoning County jail. He was released from the jail later Tuesday. He was placed on administrative leave pending investigation at the time of the incident.

When Youngstown City Schools Public Information Officer Stacy Quinones was asked Wednesday for the employment status of Santana-Garcia, she responded that “Mr. Santana-Garcia resigned from his position, and all relevant evidence was subsequently transferred to the Youngstown Police Department.”

A Youngstown police report states that a Youngstown police officer spoke with the Youngstown City Schools director of transportation, who said Santana-Garcia, a bus aide, “pulled a knife” on the sixth grader at 3:21 p.m. on a school bus as it was headed from East Middle School to the North Side of Youngstown.

The child did not tell anyone at the time it happened, but he told his grandmother when he got home, the report states.

The official showed the officer security video footage of the incident. “In the video, you can see the back of Garcia in the rear of the bus talking to (blacked out) and other students. Garcia hits the hat of (blacked out) and continues talking to him,” the report states.

“Then you can see an object in Garcia’s hand as he steps into the seat where (blacked out) is sitting.” The report states that it was not possible to see what Garcia had in his hand, but it appeared to be silver. Nothing more happened in the video, the report states.

After the child told his grandmother about the incident, she emailed the school, stating that the boy had come home crying and said the bus aide held a switch-blade knife to his neck for about 10 seconds.

A person whose name was blacked out said the boy had no marks on him, but he was “scared of the encounter.” The school official was not able to provide the officer with a specific location where the incident occurred. The officer did not speak to the family of the child, the report states.