Sheriff: N Carolina student was carrying AK-47 on school bus
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Published: Dec. 9, 2021 at 1:54 PM EST
(AP) - North Carolina authorities say a high school student has been taken into custody after he was found carrying a rifle with a loaded magazine on a school bus.
According to The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten said the juvenile student was carrying a pistol-grip AK-47 with a loaded 30-round magazine Wednesday morning.
Wooten says the bus driver called an assistant principal after smelling marijuana on the student.
Wooten says a school resource officer searched the student and found the rifle and marijuana before taking the student into custody.
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