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MONROE, Maine (AP) \u2014 Police arrested a 10-year-old student in Maine after the student arrived on school grounds with a firearm on Friday.<\/p>

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No one was injured, the Waldo County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

The office said it arrived at Monroe Elementary School in Monroe on Friday just before 9 am after fielding a report that the student had a firearm.<\/p>

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The sheriff\u2019s office said police worked with school staff to detain the student and seize the firearm. The student was then arrested and taken to the Waldo County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>

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The office said there was no ongoing threat to the school or the community.<\/p>\n

Officials with the school district did not respond to numerous requests for comment.<\/p>

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Monroe is a rural community of about 900 about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of Portland. The small school has about 70 students and is set on a two-lane road amid rolling hills and forest.<\/p>\n

The news of a student bringing a firearm to school was alarming, said Ted Pellerin, 64, who lives near the school and sent his own children there years ago. He said it seemed the community avoided a tragedy.<\/p>

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Pellerin said the incident should prompt \u201ca discussion with students about how dangerous something like that could be, how seriously something like that could be.\u201d<\/p>

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The town is home to craftspeople and professionals who commute to Bangor and Belfast, Pellerin said. It once had a larger agricultural sector, but that has diminished.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a quiet, rural community with nice people who support each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were investigating the incident, police said.<\/p>\n

No further information on the incident was immediately released.<\/p>\n

Other communities have seen their share of guns showing up at elementary schools. Most recently, in Newport News, Virginia, a teacher was shot and injured in January by a 6-year-old boy who brought a gun. A prosecutor said he would not seek charges against the child, but he has yet to decide whether any adults associated with the case could be held criminally liable.<\/p>\n

In Naples, Florida, an 11-year-old elementary school student was arrested in 2021 after bringing an unloaded gun to school and threatening two classmates, authorities said. In 2017, authorities said a first-grade student in Newton, Mississippi, was shot and wounded when another child was playing with a gun at school.<\/p>\n

And back in 2000, a 6-year-old boy was accused of killing a classmate in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. He was deemed too young to be charged.<\/p>\n

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