MIAMI -- No charges will be pursued against a television reporter who was arrested near a school while carrying a loaded gun, authorities said Tuesday.

Jeff Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network affiliate, was arrested in late October after police said he carried a weapon onto the grounds of Miami Central High School and refused to cross the street when asked by an officer.

The encounter was caught by a cameraman on videotape, which the state attorney's office used to decide that no charges would be filed against Weinsier, Assistant State Attorney Maggie Gerson wrote in a memo released Tuesday.

Weinsier had faced charges of armed trespass on school property, possession of a weapon, violation of carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest without violence. Weinsier, who was investigating a story on school violence, was not on school grounds when approached by police and ordered to leave, Gerson said.

"Since the defendant was not trespassing, anything that was found on the defendant after he was arrested will be suppressed as a matter of law," Gerson wrote.

Weinsier's actions did not appear disruptive and students had been dismissed from classes when he was arrested, Gerson said.

The reporter began carrying a gun after he received death threats stemming from a series he did about unsanitary conditions at restaurants, according to the station. Weinsier has a concealed weapons permit, police had said.

"From day one, I knew that I had been on the public sidewalk outside the school," Weinsier said Tuesday. "I knew the law clearly. This is false arrest."

The reporter said he has filed a formal complaint with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department and is reviewing the possibility of legal action.

Weinsier worked at WJXT before transferring to WPLG, a sister station also owned by The Washington Post Co.