SBSO BOOKS TEEN FOR HAVING FIREARM AT SCHOOL
The St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office has arrested a male juvenile for having a firearm in his possession while on a school campus, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
A 13-year-old male eighth grade student at a St. Bernard Parish public middle school was booked Friday, May 5 at the St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center with carrying a firearm or dangerous weapon by a student on school property, illegal possession of a stolen firearm and terrorizing.
Shortly before 11 a.m., Sheriff Pohlmann said, deputies responded to a call from school administrators about a student at the school who was found to be in possession of a weapon while on campus.
During the course of the investigation, deputies with the Special Investigations Division determined the male student brought the firearm to school in his backpack.
Sheriff Pohlmann said no one was injured in the incident and deputies have recovered the firearm, a .9mm Taurus handgun, which was listed as stolen in St. Bernard.
The investigation is ongoing, the Sheriff said.
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