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At 11:31 a.m., officers responded to a report of a man, later identified as Robert Villa, with a camouflaged bag used for transporting weapons, trespassing at Von E. Mauger Middle School, Middlesex police said.
The middle school along with Woodland Intermediate School and Watchung Elementary School went into a shelter in place, police said. Villa fled the scene before police arrived, but he was later located and found to be in possession of a hunting bows and a knife, police said.
Villa was charged with three counts of unlawful possession of weapons on school property, police said.
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