A Brooklyn teen was held on $5,000 bail on Friday for “unintentionally” bringing a loaded weapon into school on the first day of classes, his attorney said.
The 15-year-old handed his backpack to the school safety agent to place into the metal detector at the Brooklyn School for Career Development in Clinton Hill and set off the alarms.
“My client attended the school last year, he knew full well he had to pass the bag through the metal detectors before entering the building,” said the student’s attorney Frederic Pratt at his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Friday.
The B-average student was charged as an adult with four counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
The teen, shown here after cops found a gun in his bag, was a B-average student who was charged with four counts of criminal posession of a weapon. (TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
“What do you have in your bag?” asked the school safety agent after scanning the bag several times through the machine.
Assistant District Attorney Michael Zebrowski told Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Lorna McAllister that the student at first denied it was his bag until officials found his sneakers and folders with his class assignments from December 2015 inside.
“That bag is old, my mom was going to take me to get a new bag,” the teen allegedly told the school safety agents who spotted the loaded .22 caliber Sig-Sauer pistol.
Pratt requested for prosecutors to swab the weapon for DNA because his client is a “good kid who has no beefs or problems with anyone in school” and “chances are his DNA is not present.”
The teen’s mother was in the courtroom for the proceeding, but declined to comment after the judge set bail.
If convicted on the top charge, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
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