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Student Caught With Gun, Thousands Of Dollars Cash At Brooklyn School

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A student at a Brooklyn school was caught with a gun and tens of thousands of dollars Wednesday.

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According to the NYPD, school staff at the Urban Assembly School of Law and Justice called police just before noon to report a student in an administrative office at the school had a handgun.

Police say in addition to the gun, the student also had about $30,000 in cash on him.

Officers arrived and took a 17-year-old boy into custody without incident. Charges are pending.

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