Community college student charged with having a box cutter
A student at Community College of Baltimore County in Essex has been charged with having a box cutter and a shank while on campus, according to police. The 18-year-old female was arrested Wednesday while standing in a cafeteria lunch line.
Jamersa Daikyra Kinlaw, of the 5100 block of Harford Road, was charged with two counts of possessing a dangerous weapon on school property. She was released on personal bail and has a court hearing scheduled for next month.
A school spokeswoman, Hope Davis, said her case would probably be referred to the school's judiciary committee, and that she would normally be on interim suspension until the outcome of the criminal case. She said it the first time this semester that a student has been charged with possessing a weapon.
Cathy Batton, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department, said a school security guard was tipped off about the student about 9:30 a.m. He approached the student in "B Building," at the grill in a cafeteria, and asked the student about the complaint.
Batton said the student said she had a box cutter. The police spokeswoman said the guard, a special police officer, also found a "small piece of metal attached to a plastic handle."
Comments
Could not a purse strap and hairbrush be used to make a garrote? Lots of girls have those things. Aren't scissors considered to be a normal office supply? Couldn't they be used for murder? A bicycle lock can lock a bike or crack a skull. Who decides what is a weapon? Is a box cutter automatically considered to be a weapon since 9/11?
Posted by: Mike | November 10, 2011 3:53 PM
Essex just had an incident this week with a student being robbed by three males Monday night outside near the A and B buildings.
Posted by: lisa | November 10, 2011 3:53 PM
Since when is it illegal to carry a knife?
Posted by: Really? | November 10, 2011 4:03 PM
ccbc is for county students
5100 Harford Road is in the city.
did she pay non resisdent rates or use a fake address?
Posted by: habid | November 10, 2011 5:52 PM
Yeah what exactly did she do wrong? Poor journalism Sun. At least find out it a threat had been made or something of substance. She is a college student. A legal adult. She has rights to protect herself does she not?
Posted by: John | November 10, 2011 6:14 PM
They want you to be totally defenseless so you don't harm the rapist or robber. RIdiculous! As much stuff happen on campuses now, its a fact the campus cannot protect you everywhere all the time. Just like on the street.
Posted by: shawn | November 10, 2011 7:34 PM
It's only illegal on campus, where all weapons are banned.
Posted by: Concerned student | November 10, 2011 9:09 PM
I think this is a stupid. They arrest someone for carrying box cutters? and now the sunpaper put her pictture in newspaper, Way to go sunpaper , you just help ruin somebody life ,you are no better than the idiots that arrested her in the first place.
Posted by: Derrick L Camper | November 10, 2011 11:37 PM
CCBC is not ONLY for county STUDENTS that was a STUPID comment and WHY does it matter to you what RATES she pay? That's whats wrong with people, your concerned about NON relevant issues!!!
Carrying a box cutter or knife in the city or county is expected seeing as tho young girls often get RAPED and ROBBED and the POLICE never have any ANSWERS!!!!
As a resident of MARYLAND you better PROTECT YOURSELF because the police sure cant!!!!
Just like everyone else is saying WHAT DID SHE DO WRONG? She did not HARM anyone or have intentions to HARM anyone...and they left out the fact that she catches the BUS to school, leaves out when it is still DARK and the 'weapons' were for PROTECTION!!!!
The MEDIA sucks!!!!
Posted by: Kay Blaq | November 11, 2011 10:09 AM
I don’t understand what she did wrong she didn't attacking anyone or cause harm to them with all the raping and robbing people that is going on lately I see nothing wrong with carry some protection if she had scissors in her possession would she have been arrested for that too she is a young female who was only protecting herself I think Community College of Baltimore County in Essex needs to look at their campus and see what making their student think that they have to carry protection maybe they need to expand there security to help there student feel much safer.
Posted by: Yolanda Elliott | November 11, 2011 12:45 PM
There must be more to this story. It is not illegal to carry a knife (or box cutter) last I checked. And if it is, police, please go to the mail room and lock up everyone there. Then go to the IT department and lockup everyone with a leatherman.
Posted by: Phillip | November 11, 2011 4:20 PM
A box cutter is a box cutter and not a weapon. Again the article did not address if a threat was made. I mean let me picture this a girl is standing in the cafeteria when another student says to a campus police officer that she has a "weapon" where he then approaches the "suspect" and then searches her property (with consent I hope) and discovers a box cutter and a self described "shank". Why in heavens would an 18 year old girl have a shank? She can purchase a steak knife or any other knife that she wants but instead brought some kind of tool which is now convienently mentioned as a "shank". She is in college no prison. Then she is arrested put in jail and name smeared all over the main regional paper. If this were you and you were innocent you would be outraged and embarrassed. Why don't you remember that people are innocent until proven guilty and that you would be very unhappy if someone put you in that situation. It seems a number of this woman's rights have been trampled as is the norm these days. I hope she can find a good lawyer or someone will contact the ACLU for her.
Posted by: John | November 11, 2011 5:54 PM
Maybe the student had to open some boxes.
Posted by: Cham | November 13, 2011 10:21 AM