Deputies: Teen Brought Unloaded Gun to River Ridge High

A 16-year-old boy faces criminal charges after Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies say he brought an unloaded gun and drugs onto the River Ridge High School campus Thursday afternoon.

According to the sheriff’s office, “an alert staff member” spotted the boy, who doesn’t go to the school. It seems the teen had been trespassed earlier this month at a football game.

Concerned about what the boy might be doing on the campus, the staff member told the school’s resource deputy. The deputy, in turn, met up with the boy on the sidewalk in front of the 11646 Town Center Road school, the sheriff’s office wrote in an email to media.

The boy, the email said, was evasive in answering the deputy’s questions about what he was doing on property he had been trespassed from. A subsequent search of the teen turned up “an unloaded .25-caliber handgun, 32 grams of marijuana, some type of mushroom, and drug paraphernalia,” the email said.

The teen was arrested, the sheriff’s office noted. The boy’s name is not being released due to his age. It is unclear exactly what charges he faces.

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