Student Arrested After Showing Up to School in Body Armor, Cops Later Find Weapons Cache

"An 18-year-old Florida student was arrested Monday after officials informed police he was wearing a bullet-proof vest on school property.

"Shawn Keiffer Newberry, 18, of Lakeland, Fla., is facing charges of armed trespassing, grand theft and criminal mischief after police found the student had purchased body armor, a Taser, AK-47s, a shotgun, gas mask and ammunition among other items, officials said.

"A search warrant executed on the student's home found a video showing Newberry and four others using the AK-47s for target practice.

Officials notified police Monday that Newberry was wearing a bullet-proof vest at the Life Skills Center in Lakeland. Newberry, officials said, was evasive when asked about the vest and a search of his vehicle turned up "Clear Out," a chemical agent used to temporarily incapacitate a person."

Lakeland is just up the road a piece so this hits home. Young Master Newberry is of legal age to purchase a rifle or shotgun and ammunition for either, body armor is iffy depending upon the type because the ONLY ONES have the best ones reserved for ONLY THEM, and the Taser is not considered a lethal weapon and may also be purchased and carried IF one has first obtained a Concealed Weapons Permit, but that isn't going to happen until the age of 21.

Chances are the vest was quite legal, but law enforcement will ALWAYS be frightened into hysterics if they discover a NOT ONLY ONE in possession of body armor. "Clear Out" is another weapon, as defined by the following:

(3)(a) "Concealed weapon" means any dirk, metallic knuckles, slungshot (sp), billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or device, or other deadly weapon carried on or about a person in such a manner as to conceal the weapon from the ordinary sight of another person.

Yeah, just like the Taser, he needed a permit to carry the Clear.

Where the "grand theft" came from I do not know. But never in a million years is a student permitted to go so armed on school property, so the kid is on his way to the slammer for sure. Not that any video of he and his friends shooting the AK means a damned thing, but I'm certain the police found THAT scary as well and passed it along to the breathless media creature to throw salt in the wound.

Regarding the "WEAPONS CACHE"?

No comment. Well, nothing I'd care to spew in a family oriented web log (cough). Suffice to say that were I a firearms aficionado, they'd find more than that in the gun room even before opening the safe.

Cache: a hiding place, esp. one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.: most often used in the description of a meager supply of firearms when a Yellowstream Media representative wishes to frighten the children and soccer moms.

PS: Only a government agency would be so dense as to use a word to define itself. "Concealed means...something concealed."

Brilliant. I hesitate to look into the the DUI laws for fear of seeing "Intoxicated means...intoxicated."