A Seminole High School student was arrested Thursday after a gun was found on campus, while a second is accused of bullying the student who reported it, Sanford Police Department announced.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old student accused of having the gun, whom the Orlando Sentinel isn\u2019t naming because he has not been charged as an adult, was found in a closet as school resource officers scoured campus looking for him. He was charged with possessing a firearm while under the age of 18, possessing a firearm on a school campus and disruption of a school function.<\/p>\n
The second student, 16, was also charged as a minor with tampering with a witness. Both were sent to the Seminole County Juvenile Assessment Center.<\/p>\n
Chief Cecil Smith applauded the student who reported the gun for coming forward, saying there is \u201czero tolerance for anyone who jeopardizes the safety of students and staff in our schools.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported, and no other details have been released.<\/p>\n
\u201cBullying someone for reporting a serious crime, such as having a gun on a school campus, will not be tolerated,\u201d Smith said in a statement. \u201cAgain, we are thankful for the student who chose to do the right thing and report the student. We will continue to encourage any student to always \u2018see something, say something.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Seminole High School student was arrested Thursday after a gun was found on campus, while a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[113,28,114,266,115,139,141,140,1014,109],"class_list":["post-272850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-seminole-county","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272850","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=272850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}