Sex offense report at Bethune-Cookman University leads to gun arrest
Daytona Beach police investigating a sex offense at a Bethune-Cookman University dorm arrested a student they found with a firearm, according to an arrest report.
Daytona Beach police said the report on the sex offense was unavailable Friday but said the victim told authorities that a gun was being kept in the room at the dorm in the 300 block of N. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Keith Holmes, 18, of Miami, was charged with possession of a firearm on school property. He was out of the Volusia County Branch Jail Friday on $2,500 bail.
Police were called to the university at 8:36 p.m. on Wednesday.
The university's security guard first made contact with Holmes because of the alleged sex offense and found the Smith & Wesson firearm during an administrative search. A magazine loaded with .40 caliber ammunition, and additional 9mm rounds were also in the room, the arrest report said.
Holmes admitted the firearm belonged to him and said that he had it for protection because he had "opps," meaning opponents or rivals. He claimed that on multiple previous occasions, he had a rifle and a Draco, a Romanian pistol with a 30-round magazine, pointed at his chest and that he was tired of it, police said.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Bethune-Cookman University student found with gun on campus
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