{"id":179657,"date":"2026-03-05T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:19:08","slug":"substitute-teacher-arrested-for-bringing-gun-to-school-after-grabbing-wrong-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179657\/","title":{"rendered":"Substitute teacher arrested for bringing gun to school after grabbing wrong purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM<\/p>\n<p>She said she meant to grab the one with her laptop instead, deputies saylead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7LQC7RFEMZECXDWFE4IZ7ODQAU.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Khadijah Jameela Mohamed Mugshot for Khadijah Jameela Mohamed, 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">COOPER CITY, Fla.  \u2014 A South Florida substitute teacher was arrested after being found in possession of a gun on a Broward County school campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies took Khadijah Jameela Mohamed, 22, into custody at Cooper City High School on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, Mohamed arrived at the school around 7:30 a.m., got out of her car and headed inside with a black purse in hand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When going through school security, a staff member inspecting her purse found a black and pink Glock 34x gun inside, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was immediately brought to the school\u2019s administrative offices, where deputies said they were called. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After speaking with Mohamed, deputies said she told them she grabbed the wrong purse from her car, explaining that she has two black purses, \u201cone containing her laptop and another in which she stores her firearm,\u201d according to an arrest form. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mohamed is facing one count of possession of a firearm on school property. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was not listed among Broward County inmates as of Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM She said she meant to grab the one with her laptop instead,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-179657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657","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=179657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}