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Student arrested with gun at school

Posted: Mar 6, 2012 6:14 AM by AP

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a McKinley High School student for having a gun and drugs on campus.

Sheriff's office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks tells The Advocate the 10th-grader was arrested Monday.

Hicks says a deputy found a loaded handgun and a bag of marijuana in the student's pocket after another student told school administrators about the weapon.

She says the 17-year-old was booked into Parish Prison on one count each of possession of marijuana and illegally carrying a weapon on school property.

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