Students’ cell phones taken from Central Middle School

A Columbus woman is being accused of sneaking into Central Middle School and swiping students cell phones.

Columbus police report they were called to investigate a suspicious person around the school on 7th Street at about 8:30 a.m. yesterday morning. Shortly after that, the phones were found to be missing from a school locker room.

School resource officers used the cell phone signals to track the phones to the area of Foundation For Youth on Hope Avenue where they found 19-year-old Alexis R. Daniels of Columbus. She is facing a preliminary charge of theft.