Cocaine delivered to second school (in box of meat)

Biloxi Sun-Herald ^ | 11.14.03 | MARGARET BAKER

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HURLEY - Fifteen pounds of cocaine found in a ground-meat box at East Central Upper Elementary School came from the same shipment sent to an Ellisville school, where 15 pounds of cocaine was found in a ground meat box last week.

A cafeteria worker at the Hurley school found the cocaine in a box stamped Lot No. 021 early Monday morning.

"Some of the ground meat was taken out, and in its place was six bricks of cocaine," Lark Christian, food service director for the Jackson County School District, said Thursday. "When she was lifting the box to put it on a shelf, she knew it felt unusual. When she went back to check that box, sure enough it had been tampered with. It was the same lot number that Ellisville had."

In the Ellisville case, a delivery driver from Merchants Co., which has offices in Hattiesburg and Jackson, found the cocaine stacked in a box when he stopped at Ellisville Elementary School to make a delivery.

Christian said lot numbers are stamped on the side of all boxed food. The numbers, she said, allow school officials and others to track the shipment's origin and record other information, such as when the food was manufactured.

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized the cocaine shortly after it was found Monday. Jackson County sheriff's deputies also were at the school.

Neither school officials nor the shipper are suspects in the investigation, Ed Dickey, DEA's resident agent in charge in Gulfport, said Thursday.

"It came out of Texas," Dickey said. "The meat was not contaminated with cocaine. I wouldn't want anyone to think that the cocaine was mixed in with the ground beef."

The state Department of Education notified all school districts in the state on Friday to segregate shipments bearing the 021 lot number. Christian said the Jackson County School District still has 96 cases of the 021 shipment, but they are being returned to Merchants Co.

School officials checked the remaining boxes but did not find any more cocaine.

Christian said elementary classes were not interrupted when the cocaine was found.

"There was never any danger to the children," Christian said. "As soon as we knew there was a problem, we got the drugs off the campus."

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Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Dog]

Where is the meat...

[buffyt]

Yikes, no wonder the kids are so HYPER!

[Flux Capacitor]

----"It came out of Texas," Dickey said.----

Okay, folks, all together now.... One.... two.... three....

"IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!"

-Dan

[kaktuskid]

League of Gentlemen bump

[Cicero]

It has been said that in earlier days Tyson used to ship cocaine from Mena Airport stuffed in frozen chickens. I wonder who the meat packer is in this instance?

I believe Tyson took over a beef packing company during clinton's second term. They risisted a takeover, but Clinton had his agricultural inspectors issue a number of violations against the beef packer's plant, which enabled Tyson to engineer the takeover at a very favorable price.

[Freemeorkillme]

Did you mean, "Where's the beef?"

[Doomonyou]

Man, I hate it when I do that.

[coloradan]

"There was never any danger to the children," Christian said. "As soon as we knew there was a problem, we got the drugs off the campus."

Phew! For a minute there I thought the drugs might remain at the school, posing a huge threat to The Children.

[SAJ]

Exactly right, Cicero. The company involved was IBP, Inc. (the old Iowa Beef Packing), and the takeover itself likely violated half a dozen tenets of antitrust ''law''. However, with Bigfoot in the AG's chair, those considerations were, of course, simply ignored.

[George Smiley]

There's a truck driver somewhere who's running for his life and rightly scared to death, I'd say.

Losing 30 pounds of blow is worth the owner's expending considerable effort to punish the one who lost it, if for no other reason than as an example to others.

[HAL9000]

That's what they get for ordering from the Roger Clinton Meat Company.

[Jaded]

I just gets weirder.

[bourbon]

(((MS PING)))

So does this qualify as a "snow day" at these schools?

[WKB]

So does this qualify as a "snow day" at these schools?



No but it does mean "higher" education for Ms

[Chapita]

I read this early this morning in the Sun Herald and Tyson was my first thought!

Mike Espy recorded a phone message for Musgrove's campaign, and I got his call.

[Cicero]

Yes, I was going by memory from something I read here quite a few years ago, but as you say it was definitely IBP. A very sleazy deal.

It reminds me of another story about when clinton organized a big "international peace" gathering in Cairo after some terrible violence in Israel, and was showing everyone what a wonderful peacemaker he was, but was overheard not talking about peace but selling Tyson chicken legs to the Russians.

[stboz]

I guess we have to go back up the "food chain" to find the source!

[dixiechick2000]

So does this qualify as a "snow day" at these schools?

No but it does mean "higher" education for Ms

I guess we have to go back up the "food chain" to find the source!

BWAHAHAHAHA

You guys crack me up! ;o)