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Rocket launcher stolen from Wichita classroom

April 08, 2011|By Joe Fenton | KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

WICHITA, Kan. — A military rocket launcher stolen from a classroom in Wichita's Curtis Middle School has been recovered.

Wichita School District spokesperson Susan Arensman says a student took the rocket launcher, which was kept on a shelf in a classroom.

Arensman says the rocket launcher was inert.

District officials do not know why the teacher had the rocket launcher in the classroom, adding the teacher should not have had the launcher at the school.

The district is conducting an investigation into the theft, and into why the teacher had the rocket launcher.

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