Student arrested after bus altercation

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A 17-year-old Deptford High female student was arrested on Feb. 25 after an altercation with another female juvenile on a school bus near Ironwood Drive and Village Boulevard.

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Police responded to the area at 3:05 p.m. and eventually deescalated the situation. One of the females was transported to Cooper Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and released later the same day. No one else was injured.

The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office approved charges against the arrested juvenile of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose.

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