- November 17, 2024
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Deputies found a stolen gun March 3 in the last place anyone would want to find one: in a local child’s bedroom.
The deputies recovered the gun, a Glock 42, .380 caliber handgun, from a home on Paul Lane after a local mom cleaning her son’s bedroom found it in a metallic box, wrapped in a yellow bandana. There were other items that weren’t his, including two pairs of sunglasses — Raybans and Oakleys — and a wallet containing a birth certificate for a Brooke Dylan Raley.
She told deputies her son had been hanging out with two kids she called “trouble,” and that she’d been tipped off that her son got the gun when he joined a gang.
A school resource officer at the boy’s school — Indian Trails Middle School — called him out of class.
He told the deputy another Indian Trails student, a 13-year-old boy, gave him the gun.
Deputies called the 13-year-old out of class. The school’s dean, Justin Cronk, searched him, and found an 8-inch kitchen knife in his backpack.
The teen was already on probation on a drug charge, and refused to speak with deputies without deputies without a lawyer and his mother present.
Deputies charged him with possession or display of a weapon on school property and with probation violation.
They released him to the Department of Juvenile Justice, and he was placed on home detention.
