Osceola Middle School student arrested on firearm charge

SEMINOLE -- A 15-year-old Osceola Middle School student was arrested on two counts of possession of a firearm on school grounds this morning.

Students told the school resource officer that a student had a gun on the bus, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. The deputy found the student, Alexander Glass (left) had a handgun and two magazine rounds. The student told deputies that he accidentally brought the gun to school instead of leaving it in a flower pot at the bus stop at Lakeview Road and South Lake Drive in Clearwater.

He also said he brought the gun to the bus stop to show and possibly sell it to a high school student.

--Stephanie Garry, Times Staff Writer