{"id":110982,"date":"2026-01-08T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:28:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-child-brings-gun-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110982\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested after Child Brings Gun to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764950231_728_News-Release-Header-NEW-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2013 James Edward Wilson (DOB 07\/24\/1975) has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after his child was found with a 9mm handgun in his backpack at Trafalgar Elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County School District requires all students, staff members, and guests to be screened by their OPENGATE Weapons Detection System before entering any campus. During today\u2019s screening before school, a 5-year-old student was found to have a loaded firearm in their backpack. The student said they knew nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in our Violent Crimes Unit interviewed the parents at their home, and the father admitted to putting the weapon in the backpack to transport it to his car. He then forgot to remove the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, James Edward Wilson (DOB 07\/24\/1975) has been arrested on the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>1 count of Child Neglect, Felony1 count of Improper Storage of a Firearm, Misdemeanor<\/p>\n<p>DCF has been notified.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2013 James Edward Wilson (DOB 07\/24\/1975) has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-110982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}