Two intruders from a rival CIML school were apprehended Jan. 26 after leading school staff and local law enforcement officers on a brief chase around school property.
 With the day off from classes because of ITED testing, a pair of 17-year-old Ankeny students entered the building through the main east entry around 2:30 p.m. and proceeded to move around the building, disrupting several classes and the study hall, school resource officer Ron Zimmerman said.
     He said that many rumors have been spread, up to and including accounts of indecent exposure and the use of weapons, but these accounts are not true. 
     Zimmerman says the real story is a pretty simple one of two kids setting out to have some “fun” and simply using bad judgment in the process. 
     He says the pair drove a parent’s car (which ended up being impounded) and parked on school property. They entered the Commons and walked past the study hall. 
     “They went to the second floor balcony and one lifted up his shirt to show his bare chest,” Zimmerman said. “They ran around the hallways yelling and screaming.”
     Campus monitor Curtis Bell was the first staff member to be informed of the situation while he was patrolling through the Commons. 
     “I was walking towards the office when I got stopped by two students who said that two guys they didn’t know flashed them,” Bell said.
     After hearing this, Bell went to Zimmerman’s office to check out video surveillance data from the school’s security cameras.
     At that point, officials saw the boys walking through the second floor hallways. All the campus monitors were alerted and they positioned themselves strategically to cut the pair off.
     “I received a call that told me to go up to the third floor and look for two kids in hooded sweatshirts and stocking caps,” campus monitor Marci Keesee said.
 Keesee says she chased the students down the stairs to the Commons, where Bell was headed the wrong way because of a miscommunication. The kids headed for the front doors after being spotted.
 Both Bell and Keesee took off after the boys after they began to make their exit from the building.
     “I wasn’t full on sprinting,” Bell said, “but I can truck it.”
     “I saw them on the main floor where they took off running. I ordered them to stop,” Zimmerman said. “I caught up to them with the help of a parent who had a vehicle running.”
     Caught at edge of school property, they boys were ordered to show their hands and get on the ground. Both did not comply, according to Zimmerman. After Zimmerman swept one kid’s leg, he went to the ground, while the other refused for a second time.  
     “The other one ate snow,” Bell said. 
     “I wrestled with him for a brief moment and then got him in handcuffs,” Zimmerman said. “They were both in handcuffs and the police department took them to Meyer Hall. The lesson is, the first time a police officer asks you to do something, you better do it.”
     They were later released to their parents after being charged with trespassing, interference and resisting arrest. 
     “These kids had apparently done this a year ago in their own junior high school and got caught.
     They had to up their thrill,” principal Chuck Bredlow said. “They’re not going to find it worth their while.”
     According to Zimmerman, Ankeny school officers were notified of the situation, but he has not yet been informed if this incident affected their status at their school in any way.