{"id":377326,"date":"2026-08-21T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:42:22","slug":"9th-grade-student-arrested-after-bringing-a-gun-to-gibbs-high-school-st-pete-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377326\/","title":{"rendered":"9th-grade student arrested after bringing a gun to Gibbs High School, St. Pete police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 15-year-old was arrested after he brought a handgun to school, the St. Pete police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thursday, the St. Pete Police Department said a ninth-grade student at Gibbs High School was charged with possession of a weapon on school property and unlawful carry of a concealed firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a staff member first told the School Resource Officer about a student whom they believed was concealing a gun in his clothes. Officers noted that the child did not make any threats against any students or the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The St. Petersburg Police makes the safety of students a top priority and any weapon on campus, or other threat to school safety, will be thoroughly investigated,&#8221; an SPPD spokesperson said. &#8220;This serves as a reminder to students that this is taken very seriously and the consequences could be severe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Public Information Specialist Ashley Limardo told 10 Tampa Bay News over a phone conversation that parents should know that guns should always be secured and away from children. Limardo also recommended that kids should be taught not to touch or take a gun that is not theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Limardo added that if you see a child with a firearm, you should report it to the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Additionally, the St. Pete police has gun locks available upon request at its headquarters at 1301 1st Ave N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old was arrested after he brought a handgun to school, the St. Pete police said. Thursday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[98728,70421,15849,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-377326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-gibbs-high-school","tag-school-resource-officer","tag-school-safety","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377326","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=377326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}