Student detained after bringing BB gun to school

By Michael Brooks

Staff Writer

    A seventh grade Edna student was removed from the junior high campus for bringing a BB gun to school on Wednesday morning. The student, a female, was charged with Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon on a School Premises, which is a third degree felony.

    “It is still the same offense regardless if it is a juvenile or an adult,” Jackson County District Attorney Pam Guenther said. “However, the penalties are different. Juvenile cases have different options. There is probation, and of course that has different conditions than adult probation, and there is also the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. If an adult is sentenced, they could get a year or two, or maybe 50 years but the juveniles can receive various sentences but can only stay until they are 18.”

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