A 16-year-old male student at Battery Creek High School was criminally charged after police found him with a pistol on campus shortly before dismissal Wednesday afternoon.
The school resource officer detained the student around 3 p.m. Wednesday before he was taken to the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. It was not immediately clear how authorities became aware of the firearm.
No threats were made toward students or staff, officials said…