A student at Margate Middle School was arrested Wednesday for disrupting a school function after bringing a pellet gun to the school, according to the Margate Police Department.
The school, located at 500 NW 65th Ave., went under a brief lockdown, but no one was harmed. The pellet gun did not work, police said.
Broward County Public School officials could not be immediately reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.
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