{"id":225476,"date":"2026-04-09T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:19:08","slug":"dr-phillips-high-student-arrested-for-bringing-handgun-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225476\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Phillips High student arrested for bringing handgun to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h932491-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Dr. Phillips High School student Joshua Brown, 17, was arrested Thursday, April 9, after bringing a handgun to campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932491-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to the Orlando Police Department, Dr. Phillips High was notified of a student on campus with a loaded firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932491-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Officers quickly identified Brown and located him in class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932491-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Brown attempted to flee, but School Resource Officers intervened and safely took him into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932491-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">A 9mm handgun was recovered from his backpack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_2026-04-09_at_5.44.57PM_t850.png\" title=\"\"\/>Courtesy Photo<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932491-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">He now faces charges of possession of a firearm on school property, possession of a firearm by a minor and resisting arrest without violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Phillips High School student Joshua Brown, 17, was arrested Thursday, April 9, after bringing a handgun to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-225476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225476","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=225476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}