THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, September 9, 1995 TAG: 9509090273
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MIKE MATHER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 40 lines
Two police officers confiscated a handgun and a BB-style pistol from a car in the Kempsville High School parking lot Friday, the fourth day of classes, authorities said.
The officers arrested two men. Neither was a Kempsville student.
Officials could not say late Friday how the men got into the school or what they were doing there.
They were identified as Jeremiah S. Hargrow, 18, of the 900 block of Berkley Court in Chesapeake; and Remigio Baerga III, 19, of the 3800 block of Sunstream Parkway in Virginia Beach.
Both were charged with having a gun on school property - a felony - and trespassing. Hargrow also was charged with having a pager on school property.
Police said officers Dan Lindemeyer and Pat Gallegher were eating lunch in the school's cafeteria when a scuffle erupted in a nearby part of the building. The officers quelled the problem and, eventually, were led to the teens' car, police said.
In the car, the officers found a .357-caliber Magnum revolver and a BB-style handgun, police said. Police didn't say if the weapons were loaded.
The officers who found the guns are part of the 4th Precinct's Crime Suppression Unit, or CSU. The unit's primary goals are to round up truants and patrol the precinct's public schools.
By rounding up wayward students, the officers prevent burglaries and other crimes, police supervisors have said.
During the last school year, CSU officers led efforts that confiscated more than a dozen guns from schools, students, visitors and trespassers.
KEYWORDS: HANDGUN SCHOOL PROPERTY by CNB