Police: 2 Charged After Bloomfield Hills 9th Graders Try to Buy Guns

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Two Bloomfield Hills High School ninth graders tried to buy firearms before school ended, Bloomfield Township police said.

Hometownlife.com said police were tipped off earlier this month by a parent who was concerned a ninth grader might have acquired a gun. Police didn’t recover any guns on school property, but their investigation did turn up leads about the individuals who were allegedly involved in selling the firearms.

Officers from Bloomfield Township, the Troy Special Investigation Unit, the Oakland County Narcotics Enforcement Team and the FBI executed search warrants in Bloomfield Township and Detroit on June 2. Items seized included an unregistered Block handgun, a 30-round capacity magazine, cell phones with threatening text messages and a small amount of marijuana.

Two individuals were charged as a result of the investigation.

Terence Navar Williams, 17, of Bloomfield Township, and a 2015 Bloomfield Hills High School graduate, was arraigned Wednesday in 48th District Court on one charge of marijuana possession His bond was set at $7,500/10 percent surety.

Aaron Antonio Pearson-Coleman, 17, of Detroit, was charged with one count of malicious use of a telecommunication service. He was also arraigned Wednesday and given a $2,500 personal bond. Pearson-Coleman isn’t a student in the district.

Neither suspect was charged with a firearms offense, because the alleged transaction to buy guns was never completed, according to police. The threatening text messages were reportedly directed at the potential gun buyers.

It’s unclear why the students wanted to buy the guns.

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