ELIZABETH CITY, NC – An Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County School (ECPPS) maintenance employee is in custody after deputies found a handgun in his car on school property.
According to the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office, ECPPS school officials saw a handgun in a car parked in the bus garage parking area Thursday morning.
When deputies arrived at the scene in the 1000 block of US 17 South, they saw a .45 caliber handgun “in plain view of the passenger seat.” The car was also unlocked and the passenger window rolled down about an inch, according to deputies.
According to the sheriff’s office, the car belonged to Robert Kendall White, a maintenance department employee at ECPPS.
White was arrested and charged with misdemeanor weapons on educational property and was taken to Albemarle County Jail on $2,500 bond.
The sheriff’s office said White was charged with a misdemeanor “due to his employment with the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County School System.”
