Overview

• Officers responded just after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to reports of a man making threatening statements on the Folsom High School campus.
• A varsity basketball player alerted a coach, who confronted the visitor and called 911, prompting a precautionary lockdown for athletes.
• Police detained 53-year-old Folsom resident Curt Taras about a quarter mile away at Iron Point and Grover roads.
• Investigators say a knife was on school grounds and a firearm with an alleged high-capacity magazine was in a vehicle.
• Taras was booked on charges including criminal threats, possession of a concealed firearm in a vehicle, possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of a knife on campus, possession of a high-capacity magazine, and violation of a court order, and he is being held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail pending a Monday court appearance.