The brother of the suspected Florida high school gunman pleaded no contest Thursday to trespassing on the campus where the deadly rampage occurred and was later released from jail after being sentenced to time served and six months of probation.
Circuit Judge Melinda Kirsch Brown also ordered Zachary Cruz, 18, to enroll in therapy, wear an ankle monitor and said he cannot possess firearms or ammunition. The judge also said Cruz must be tested to make sure he isn't consuming drugs or alcohol and must stay at least 1 mile from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during probation. He can never visit the school again and must not contact any victims or their families.

He was arrested March 19 and held on $500,000 bond after police found him skateboarding at Stoneman Douglas after school, 33 days after his 19-year-old brother, Nikolas Cruz, is accused of the Valentine's Day shooting. Broward sheriff's deputies say school officials had told him not to come on campus, but his attorney, Joseph Kimok, denied that. His arrest created concern in the Stoneman Douglas community and caused Florida Gov. Rick Scott to order highway patrol troopers on campus to bolster already heightened security provided by the sheriff's office.

Zachary Cruz had spent the last 10 days in custody after his extraordinary bond was ordered by a different judge. The typical bond in Broward County for trespassing, a second-degree misdemeanor, is $25. After the hearing, Kimok called Zachary Cruz's 10-day detention on $500,000 bond for a trespassing charge "immoral and unconstitutional." He said there is no doubt that was done simply because of who his brother is and that no one else would have been arrested. The brothers attended Stoneman Douglas but did not graduate. Kimok said his client went skateboarding there because it was one of the few place he felt welcome.

"If they can do to Zachary what they did to him in the light of day in front of the national media, they can do it to anyone and that should scare all of us," Kimok said.

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