A Perry Meridian High School student faces expulsion, after reportedly threatening other students with a knife, according to a police report and statement from the school district.

Joseph Chen, 16, had to be stopped with a "Taser" electric shock device on Monday morning at the Far-Southside school at 401 W. Meridian School Road, the police report said. Chen was arrested and faces preliminary charges of criminal recklessness, resisting law enforcement, disorderly conduct and possession of a knife on school property.

Most school districts have a zero-tolerance policy when students carry a weapon into a school building, including Perry Township Schools. "Weapons and threats of violence will not be tolerated in our schools and will be dealt with swiftly," read a statement posted on the district's website.

The police report said that officers recovered from Sloan an eight-inch black folding knife emblazoned with a red "swastika emblem."

The incident that led to the arrest was reported at the high school at 10:41 a.m. Monday. The report said Sloan had threatened students with a knife and ran when police yelled at him to drop the weapon and get on the ground.

School administrators reportedly cut off Chen's escape in a school stairwell, and the police report said he "squared his stance, as if to lunge" at police. That was when IMPD Officer Thomas J. Nolan discharged the "Taser" at Chen, who dropped when the barbs from the device struck him in the chest and he felt the discharge of electricity.

After he was handcuffed, Chen cried and said "he was scared and it was stupid what he did," the report said.

Chen was being held without bond at the Arrestee Processing Center on Monday evening.

Police records say Chen was involved in a fistfight in March of 2009 at Perry Meridian, which led to him being sent to juvenile court but not arrested.