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Teen Arrested Following Gun Threat At Children's Museum

Last updated on Wednesday, April 2, 2014

(INDIANAPOLIS) - A teenager was arrested after police said he pointed a gun and threatened someone at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Police were called to the neighborhood four blocks north of the museum on Monday after 5 p.m., shortly after the museum closed for the night when officers said someone at the museum saw him pull the gun and threaten someone at the facility.

A Beech Grove police officer found the teen near 34th and Illinois streets and waited for backup from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Officers then searched the 16-year-old boy and they wrote in their arrest report that they immediately felt a gun in his left waistband. The officer then retrieved a black Bersa .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun.

While searching the teen, officers said they also found two pieces of Spice, a synthetic drug, tucked into one of his socks.

The boy was booked on a felony charge of possessing a handgun without a license, as well as a felony drug possession charge.

A second teenager, who was walking away from the museum with the boy, was also detained by police but no other weapons were found and he was not charged.

Children's Museum leaders said no one inside the museum was threatened with a gun.

"That didn't happen," said Brian Statz, the museum's vice president of operations.

He said someone inside looked outside and spotted someone that the witness knew to carry a gun and cause trouble.

Museum staff then called police, he said. "Nobody pulled a gun in anybody at the museum," he said, adding that there was no evidence that anyone with a gun ever made it inside the complex.

The arrest report listed no other details about who was threatened or exactly where the confrontation took place at the museum.

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