ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two teens were in court on Tuesday, charged with bringing guns onto an Albuquerque high school campus. This after a flurry of threats at schools around the state and as Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman called for changes to how juveniles are held accountable.
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“It’s one of the most dangerous things we can all imagine is kids with guns,” said District Attorney Sam Bregman, and he says it’s happening far too often.
On Tuesday afternoon, juvenile court heard two cases from last week where in separate instances, a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old were caught with firearms at the same school, Ace Leadership High in northwest Albuquerque. “There is no bigger nightmare than the idea of having a gun on a school campus,” said Bregman.