ENCORE: Urbandale Mother Charged With Trying to Hide 8-Year-Old's Pellet Gun

An 8-year-old student at Urbandale’s Jensen Elementary School is in trouble with juvenile court, and his mother's in even more trouble after the boy took a pellet gun to school and his mother allegedly tried to hide it from police.

Officers arrived at the school about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday and eventually found the gun. 

The boy, whose name was not released, was taken to Polk County Juvenile Court. His mother, Ashena Tucker, 23, of Urbandale, was arrested on a charge of interference with official acts and was released on a misdemeanor citation, police said.

Randy Peterson, Urbandale Police Department public information officer, said the boy’s mother tried to hide the pellet gun.

“She was hindering us in trying to locate the gun,” Peterson said. “We ended up finding it later on down the line.”

Police said no students or teachers were harmed.