{"id":231224,"date":"2026-04-14T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:22:08","slug":"student-arrested-facing-disciplinary-measures-at-school-after-weapon-brought-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231224\/","title":{"rendered":"Student arrested, facing disciplinary measures at school after weapon brought on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-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\/04\/BPAE5OLNWZBYNG6JDXXSY35S5Y.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAUDERHILL, Fla.  \u2014 A middle school student has been arrested after a weapon was brought on campus Monday, Broward County Public Schools officials confirmed to Local 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BCPS, the Parkway Middle School student is also facing \u201cappropriate disciplinary measures in accordance with the Code Book for Student Conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BCPS confirmed that a tip from a student and parent led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/13\/student-tip-leads-to-weapon-discovery-lockdown-at-broward-middle-school\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/13\/student-tip-leads-to-weapon-discovery-lockdown-at-broward-middle-school\/\">potentially dangerous discovery at the Lauderhill school<\/a>, located at 3600 NW Fifth Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Intern Principal Ackimo Charles said in a message to parents, in part, \u201cWe received information from a student and parent about a possible weapon on campus. We immediately placed our school on Lockdown and notified our School Resource Officer and security team, who safely handled the situation and confiscated the weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe told me he was going to bring it to school, but I told him not to do it, but he still went ahead,\u201d a student told Local 10 News. \u201cAnd one of my other friends told him not to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After police got involved, the lockdown was lifted and school operations continued as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charles praised the student and parent who reported the weapon, saying that the idea of \u201csee something, say something\u201d worked in this particular situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The student\u2019s age and identity have not been released. <\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) LAUDERHILL, Fla. \u2014 A middle school student has been arrested after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-231224","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\/231224","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=231224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}