What is the name of your state? California
I'll make this brief if I can but it's complicated.
I was storing my neighbors pistol in my gunsafe.
When I got home from work, the neighbor's kid (15 year old great kid with good grades) was at my house asking for the gun. He said his class was doing a play on the Mafia and the teacher said he could bring a real gun (unloaded) to school for the play.
I told him he can't do that.
He produced a note from his teacher saying so.
I called his mother and verified that she had checked and this was true.
She said yes, give him the gun.
I thought maybe I misunderstood the intended use of the gun so I gave it to him.
Anyway, the following day, his grandmother took him to school and told him to leave the gun in the backpack, don't show it to anyone.
The teacher took the gum out of the paper sack he had it in, showed it to the class and then set it in open view by her desk all day.
The play didn't happen that day because of time restraints.
So she allowed him to take the gun home and bring it the following day.
Meanst while, I realized that this gun was in fact going to a high school.
I informed a friend about how worried I was and how insane that teacher must be.
Every scenario I considered in my head concerning the pistol at school was a bad one. Everything from him being shot by a school police officer to him being knifed by gang members to get the gun ran through my head.
The next moring my buddy called and said we need to do something and I agreed. He called the police who contacted the School Resource Officer (city cop)assigned to the school. My friend told her we didn't want the kid in trouble but the gun removed from the school and the teacher counciled. She said yes.
She called me for further information and I supplied the boy's name and which class was putting on the play. I told her he was a good boy from a good family who are just naive about firearms so not to jam him up for doing what the teacher said. She agreed.
My gut told me not to trust this cop so I called my friend and we went to the school.
We got there just in time to see the poor kid arrested, handcuffed and led out to a police car. Then the cop came out, and snottily ask us what we wanted. We told her we wanted to see the boy released and the teacher arrested.
She said the teacher admitted the note but they have proceedures to follow then pretty much told us to get lost.
So we went to the police station. We talked to a detective involved in the case. He told us that because of the note, he probably wouldn't be charged with the gun but he also had a switchblade knife and other illegal stuff in his backpack.
Some of the props he was to supply were guns, (real, airsoft and another toy gun). An empty bottle of booze, a pack of cigarettes and any other props needed. The switchblade was a bad choice but he is a kid. His mother didn't request the note to cover the other stuff because she was concerned mainly about the gun.
The end result wasd the kid was cited and released to his mother for carrying a concealed firearm on school grounds and having a swithblade knife. Both felonies.
We all met back at the school and talked to two assistant vice principals to see if the boy was suspended. After their invesigation, they decided that the kid wasn't at fault, appoligized to him and his mother and said he wouldn't be suspended or expelled.
That was the school but he still faces the criminal charges.
We are wondering what we should do next?
Thanks for your time.
Larry
I'll make this brief if I can but it's complicated.
I was storing my neighbors pistol in my gunsafe.
When I got home from work, the neighbor's kid (15 year old great kid with good grades) was at my house asking for the gun. He said his class was doing a play on the Mafia and the teacher said he could bring a real gun (unloaded) to school for the play.
I told him he can't do that.
He produced a note from his teacher saying so.
I called his mother and verified that she had checked and this was true.
She said yes, give him the gun.
I thought maybe I misunderstood the intended use of the gun so I gave it to him.
Anyway, the following day, his grandmother took him to school and told him to leave the gun in the backpack, don't show it to anyone.
The teacher took the gum out of the paper sack he had it in, showed it to the class and then set it in open view by her desk all day.
The play didn't happen that day because of time restraints.
So she allowed him to take the gun home and bring it the following day.
Meanst while, I realized that this gun was in fact going to a high school.
I informed a friend about how worried I was and how insane that teacher must be.
Every scenario I considered in my head concerning the pistol at school was a bad one. Everything from him being shot by a school police officer to him being knifed by gang members to get the gun ran through my head.
The next moring my buddy called and said we need to do something and I agreed. He called the police who contacted the School Resource Officer (city cop)assigned to the school. My friend told her we didn't want the kid in trouble but the gun removed from the school and the teacher counciled. She said yes.
She called me for further information and I supplied the boy's name and which class was putting on the play. I told her he was a good boy from a good family who are just naive about firearms so not to jam him up for doing what the teacher said. She agreed.
My gut told me not to trust this cop so I called my friend and we went to the school.
We got there just in time to see the poor kid arrested, handcuffed and led out to a police car. Then the cop came out, and snottily ask us what we wanted. We told her we wanted to see the boy released and the teacher arrested.
She said the teacher admitted the note but they have proceedures to follow then pretty much told us to get lost.
So we went to the police station. We talked to a detective involved in the case. He told us that because of the note, he probably wouldn't be charged with the gun but he also had a switchblade knife and other illegal stuff in his backpack.
Some of the props he was to supply were guns, (real, airsoft and another toy gun). An empty bottle of booze, a pack of cigarettes and any other props needed. The switchblade was a bad choice but he is a kid. His mother didn't request the note to cover the other stuff because she was concerned mainly about the gun.
The end result wasd the kid was cited and released to his mother for carrying a concealed firearm on school grounds and having a swithblade knife. Both felonies.
We all met back at the school and talked to two assistant vice principals to see if the boy was suspended. After their invesigation, they decided that the kid wasn't at fault, appoligized to him and his mother and said he wouldn't be suspended or expelled.
That was the school but he still faces the criminal charges.
We are wondering what we should do next?
Thanks for your time.
Larry