LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A student in Lake County was arrested on Tuesday after weapons and ammunition were found in the student’s car, according to the Eustis Police Department.
Police said that around 10:39 a.m. on Tuesday, an 18-year-old student ran out of the attendance office at Eustis High School to the nearby parking lot.
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Staff found the student by his vehicle, though after talking him into going back inside, an officer noticed a pocket knife in the car’s front seat, investigators said in an officer report.
The report shows that the student was walked back to his car so that the knife could be removed, and police found several more knives, a loaded handgun, magazines and other ammunition.
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After securing the student in handcuffs, he told an officer that he and his father had bought the gun around eight years ago, but he’d forgotten that it was in his vehicle, police explained.
According to detectives, each student at the school is required to sign a Code of Student Conduct at the beginning of each year, which prohibits the possession of such weapons on school grounds.
The student was taken into custody and faces three counts of weapon possession on school grounds.
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