A 17-year-old Henderson Central Academy student has been charged with possession of a weapon on school property.

14 News reports that the school resource officer was sent remove a couple of students from the classroom on "court issued pick up orders" and discovered the loaded .22 caliber pistol when patting down one of the students.

The student is being held in the Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Bowling Green.

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