Posted on 09/24/2008 2:58:07 PM PDT by abb
FUQUAY-VARINA - A Holly Springs teen picking up his girlfriend from Fuquay-Varina High School Tuesday afternoon was arrested after school officials noticed a shotgun and a rifle in his pickup, Fuquay-Varina police said.
Joseph Pascal Aprea, 18, of 109 Malmedy Drive in Holly Springs was charged with two felony counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds, according to arrest warrants.
Aprea was driving through the carpool lane to pick up his girlfriend after school when an assistant principal noticed a shotgun hanging from a gunrack on the inside of his truck cab's rear window, Capt. Bob Adams of the Fuquay-Varina Police Department said.
Aprea did not attempt to take the shotgun out of the vehicle, Adams added.
In addition to the 12-gauge shotgun, authorities also found a .22-caliber rifle in Aprea's truck along with 49 shotgun shells, two boxcutters and a 5-and-a-half-inch hunting knife, Adams said.
"He wasn't trying to create any problems at the school. However, you're not allowed to bring guns on school property," Adams said.
Aprea spent the night in the Wake County Jail and was released today on an $11,500 bond.
Aprea's mother, Jacqueline Tapp, said this afternoon it was just "a stupid mistake" for her son to leave in his truck the rifle and shotgun he uses for target practice and hunting.
"He just wasn't thinking. He didn't even put two and two together about how protective the schools are now," Tapp said.
Thank God, they narrowly avoided another Columbine.
One more reminder that the Obama team wants to take our guns away.
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Maby they were just the wrong kind of guns? If they had been Beretta’s mabey like Joe said no one would take them away?? Stupid Vice Principal same kind of stupid dipstick that would over react and lock down school if some kid had a water pistol in school. Waht a bunch of Maroons
I just bet this vice principal was shaking and thrilled to have taken down this criminal and is proud of himself. gag.
I can understand the asst. principal’s initial concern, and he/she probably didn’t have any choice but to call the police (zero tolerance policies rarely seem to allow for discretion and/or common sense).
That said, it’s ludicrous that this kid is facing felony charges for what was an honest mistake. Were it my call to make, the police would remind the kid to follow the law next time (stupid though it may be, it’s still the law), and drop the charges.
charged with two felony counts
$11,500 bond.
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Felony charges? $11,500 bond?
Zero tolerance = Zero intelligence
These are the people educating the next generation of voters.
I bet this A.P. would have had a heart attack walking through the student lot at my H.S. during deer season.
Worse.
These people have indoctrinated the 18 year old Obamanista groupies.
He probably went back to his office and celebrated by helping himself to a little boy.
Back in the good ol’ days we would leave our shotguns in headache racks in our unlocked and rolled down windows of our pickups that were parked all day in the school parking lot and no one thought a thing about it. Even today, it’s not unusual to find a shell in the boys’ restroom at school during huntin’ season and no one has made a stink about it. However, the powers that be get all bent out of shape (to the tune of a $15 fine and a day in d-hall) if a student in our nothing little school where everyone knows everyone else isn’t wearing their ID badge...
I thought we had the right to bear arms!?! If so, how can state or federal law override a constitutional right? Don’t the laws against murder, armed assault, ect. deal effectively enough against the violent types without restricting the right of a law-abiding citizen to carry a gun?
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Thank God for guns in North Carolina. If there had been a Columbine going on, that teen and his guns would have been needed on the front line. That teen could be ON the front line in Afghanistan very shortly. The school marms from the Eastern teacher’s colleges who get nervous over guns in a gun rack should move to NYC or Chicago or D.C.
Jeez, I’m glad these MORONS at that school district don’t see the school my kids go to... we got guns at the school — the home!!
Well I recall doing the very same thing myself some 40 years ago.
When I was 14, my friend and I biked 120 miles to Cape Cod for camping. I'm glad my kids can still do things here... He has a boat and a motorcycle and a snowmobile.
Government schools utterly and completely ***trash*** a lot of our rights.
Government schools literally imprison children ( who have committed no crime) in minimum security-like buildings for 6 to 7 hours a day for 180 or more days year.
Government schools tell kids to **shut up** for nearly all of their imprisonment day.
Government schools forbid free press.
Government schools forbid free assembly. Instead it is government employees who **order** the child to assemble with people of the government's choosing.
Government schools forbid free expression of religion for nearly all of the child's imprisonment.
And..Since no school can be religiously neutral the government schools **establish** the religion, and preach the religion of whomever happens to be the most politically powerful. At the moment that religion is atheistic Secular Humanism.
Then...If a child ( who has committed no crime) ***rationally** resists being treated like a state prisoner, courts and armed police will send him to hard-time prison.
If a taxpayer ***rationally*** resists paying for this travesty of rights ( including bans on guns) courts and armed police will sell his home and business at auction. If the taxpayer resists this he will be sent to hard-time prison. If he is sufficiently resistant the police will kill him.
And....Guess what? For all the constitutional abuse above teachers expect the Mother Teresa award, a paycheck, and gold plated pension for being soooooooo selfless in their “service”. ( barf!)
By the way, I bet not one teacher protested or quit their job after they arrested this 18 year old.
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