{"id":7832,"date":"2025-11-18T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/school-cafeteria-employee-charged-after-carrying-weapon-on-campus\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:25:27","slug":"school-cafeteria-employee-charged-after-carrying-weapon-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/school-cafeteria-employee-charged-after-carrying-weapon-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"School Cafeteria Employee Charged After Carrying Weapon on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"301\"><strong data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"172\">LEXINGTON, S.C.<\/strong> &ndash; A Sandhills Middle School cafeteria employee has been charged after allegedly bringing a loaded firearm onto school grounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"412\">Andrea Brooks, 43, faces a charge of carrying a weapon on school property, according to the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"708\">&ldquo;The school resource officer was notified after a district employee told school administrators they discovered a firearm in one of the employee bathrooms,&rdquo; Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said. &ldquo;Brooks admitted to leaving the firearm in the bathroom after realizing he still had it on him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"710\" data-end=\"831\">The firearm was retrieved by the school resource officer from a bathroom that was secured and inaccessible to students.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"996\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Brooks was taken into custody at the school Monday afternoon, placed on administrative leave, and is currently being held in the Lexington County Detention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, S.C. &ndash; A Sandhills Middle School cafeteria employee has been charged after allegedly bringing a loaded firearm onto school grounds. Andrea Brooks, 43, faces a charge of carrying a weapon on school property, according to the arrest warrant. &ldquo;The school resource officer was notified after a district employee told<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/school-cafeteria-employee-charged-after-carrying-weapon-on-campus\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[76],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-public-safety","tag-lexington-county-sheriffs-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Andrea-Brooks_2025_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}