Middle school student arrested after allegedly stashing homemade firearms for robbery plot: Sheriff

A Florida mediate schoolhouse pupil was arrested and charged arsenic an big earlier this twelvemonth for allegedly creating his ain homemade firearms and explosives successful mentation for a robbery, authorities said this week.

The probe into 14-year-old Julian Davis and his 13-year-old person began connected April 27, erstwhile St. Johns County sheriff’s deputies received a extremity that the boys had been messaging each different connected Telegram astir "holding idiosyncratic astatine gunpoint" to rob them, according to an apprehension report.

The alleged texts betwixt the boys, who attended Switzerland Point Middle School, contained accusation astir gathering a shotgun and musket, arsenic good arsenic obtaining zip ties, per the apprehension report.

Sheriff Robert Hardwick and national investigators addressed the lawsuit publically for the archetypal clip said during a property league connected Friday. Authorities said charging Davis, who demonstrated an aggravated involvement successful schoolhouse shooters, could person prevented a "tragedy" astatine the mediate schoolhouse and the broader community.

Booking photograph of Julian Davis, a 14-year-old mediate schoolhouse student, who authorities accidental was readying an equipped robbery with homemade firearms. (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office)

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Davis was arrested connected April 30 and charged arsenic an big with aggregate firearms and explosives offenses. Davis and his 13-year-old person were some charged with conspiracy to perpetrate a robbery with a firearm. The younger lad was not charged arsenic an big and is truthful not being identified by Fox News Digital.

Between April 27 and 30, sheriff's deputies and national agents conducted aggregate searches of Davis' home, uncovering 3 homemade firearms, ammunition, suspected explosive components and makeshift handcuffs.

Also recovered successful Davis' location were handwritten notes depicting the operation of weapons and an evident drafting of what appeared to beryllium a Molotov cocktail, according to photos released by the sheriff's department.

Searches besides revealed a tactical vest with "White supremacy drawings" and a transcript of the manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, a White supremacist who successful 2019 went connected shooting sprees astatine 2 mosques successful Christchurch, New Zealand, sidesplitting 51 people.

Homemade shotguns recovered successful Davis' Florida location during a searches by sheriff's deputies and national agents successful precocious April. (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office)

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Other items of interest recovered by authorities successful Davis' location included a U.S. Army improvised munitions handbook and a transcript of "The Anarchist Cookbook," a 1971 publication that contains instructions connected however to marque explosives, weapons and illicit drugs.

Hardwick said Davis and his person had planned to rob idiosyncratic named CJ, though investigators person been incapable to find who CJ is.

Based connected this evidence, positive online searches by Davis, Hardwick said determination was a "much bigger representation than conscionable a robbery of that individual."

Ammunition recovered successful Davis' location during searches by instrumentality enforcement officials. (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office)

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"Davis was utilizing his devices successful his location to probe things. He had a [fixation] with radical that had committed these wide schoolhouse shootings, radical that person gone successful and done these wide stabbings," Sheriff Hardwick said. "So, helium was really spending a batch of his clip connected determination going done these high-profile cases. And it's thing that helium really wanted to emulate."

Davis is inactive successful custody astatine the St. Johns County Jail connected a $240,000 bond, the sheriff said. He pleaded not blameworthy to the charges against him and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned again adjacent period aft further charges were filed.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Davis' lawyer for comment.

A photograph released by the St. Johns Sheriff's Department of a homemade pistol and brass knuckles recovered successful Davis' home. (St. Johns County Sheriff's Office)

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Davis' friend, with whom helium was texting astir the alleged robbery, spent 21 days successful the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice earlier being released, the sheriff said.

Neither of the boys volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their school. St. Johns County School District Deputy Superintendent Paul Abbatinozzi clarified that determination was ne'er a nonstop menace to Switzerland Point Middle School.

The extremity astir the boys' alleged activities was initially submitted to the schoolhouse done FortifyFL, a level created aft the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting designed to place imaginable threats from suspicious students.