Student arrested after weapon found on Leon High School campus
A gun was confiscated on Leon High School grounds and a student was arrested Wednesday morning.
The school received a tip about a possible weapon, according to an email from principal Michael Bryan sent to parents at 11 a.m., and notified law enforcement.
"We therefore immediately located the student and safely confiscated the weapon," Bryan wrote.
The student, an 11th-grade boy, will be disciplined according to the student code of conduct, said Leon County Schools spokesperson Chris Petley. The code of conduct states that the discipline for possession of a weapon on campus is expulsion.
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The student allegedly showed off the loaded gun on social media, according to a Leon County Sheriff's Office press release. Once the information was relayed to school administration and the school resource officer, LCSO found the student and arrested the 17-year-old for allegedly bringing a stolen Glock 48 handgun to school campus.
The handgun was reported stolen in Tallahassee.
He is being charged with possession of a firearm on school campus, possession of a concealed weapon and grand theft of a firearm, according to an LCSO press release.
There have been at least four instances of a weapon found on school grounds since the beginning of the school year.
In October, a Godby High School student was arrested after being caught with loaded gun on campus.
In early September, a Godby student was arrested after he was caught with a loaded 9mm handgun and marijuana in his backpack. Days later, a 17-year-old Leon High School student was arrested after a loaded handgun was found in his backpack.
Two weeks earlier, a Leon County school resource deputy arrested a 14-year-old, who had a loaded gun in his jacket during a Friday night football game between Lincoln and Godby at Gene Cox Stadium.
Late last year, the school district announced it would begin "completely randomized" searches with a gun-sniffing dog and handheld metal detectors at its secondary schools. No one other than the school's administration and the Leon County Sheriff's Office school resource officer will know, said chief of safety and security Jimmy Williams.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Weapon found on Leon High School campus, student arrested
