Hallandale High School student was arrested Tuesday afternoon after it was discovered he had a loaded gun in his backpack, police said.
A school resource officer searched the 14-year-old student after an administrator reported that he had been smoking an e-cigarette in the hallway, said Capt. Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan, spokeswoman for the Hallandale Beach Police Department.
The security officer found a loaded weapon in the front pocket of the student’s book bag.
What was first thought to be a loaded .38 revolver ended up really being a pellet gun with five pellet rounds and one real bullet for a .38 Special inside of it, Dabney-Donovan said.
The school campus at 720 NW Ninth Ave. was put on lockdown at about 1:15 p.m. and lasted for nearly two hours, she said.
The boy was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon on a school campus and perjury, police said.
Dabney-Donovan did not respond to a request to explain why the student also was charged with perjury.
“There are no known threats or injuries related to the weapon,” Nadine Drew, a spokeswoman for the Broward School District.
The student’s name and grade were withheld per student’s privacy rights, she said.
He would be disciplined, Drew said, in accordance with district policy.
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