North Pitt student, foster father face weapons charges
A Bethel man was charged Wednesday after his foster son brought a firearm to North Pitt High School, according to the sheriff's office.
Posted — UpdatedInvestigators said a Crime Stoppers caller tipped them off that a student might be bringing a firearm to school. School resource officers seized a weapon from David Alexander Vanheeren, 17, investigators said.
Vanheeren was charged with felony possession of a firearm on educational property, felony possession with intent to sell or distribute a controlled substance, carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon on educational property.
His foster father, Chadwick Ellis Brown, of 242 of Nelson St., was charged with failure to store a firearm from a minor.
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