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From STAFF REPORTS

Three people were arrested and removed from Winfield High School during the Winfield-Arkansas City girls' basketball game Tuesday evening for disorderly conduct.

Cameron Marsh, 19, of Oxford, and Mario Elston, 18, of Arkansas City, were both taken to the Cowley County jail. One juvenile was taken to juvenile intake and released to his parents.

According to a news release from the Winfield Police Department, at about 7:20 p.m., two officers who were at the game as security, stopped three boys who the officers thought had a strong odor of marijuana coming from them.

When the officers told Elston to keep his hands out of his pockets, he refused, and the officer then grabbed one of Elston's hands. A struggle then started and Elston was arrested.

When the juvenile tried to intervene in the arrest, an officer attempted to stop him, and another struggle ensued. It was then that Marsh also refused to do what the officer told him to do, and was also arrested after a short struggle.

Winfield High School principal Greg Rinehart said this is exactly the type of behavior the school is trying to avoid during its athletic events.

"As far as I'm concerned, this had nothing to do with the game and what was going on the floor,." Rinehart said.