Posted on 03/21/2005 9:58:29 AM PST by MisterRepublican
A first-grader brought dozens of little bags of crack cocaine to his Chicago Heights elementary school Friday and began passing them out to classmates, calling them "candy," officials said Sunday.
Adults at Lincoln School, which has fewer than 200 students in kindergarten through eighth grades, learned what was going on through other kids and alerted police.
"He lives in a household where apparently there's drug dealing, and when he sees these little bags of rock cocaine around the house, they're telling him it's candy," Chicago Heights Deputy Police Chief Michael Camilli said.
A member of the household is believed to have stashed "40 bags of rock in his book bag . . . when he gets to school he finds them in his book bag, and he knows this is 'candy' because this is what [people in his home] say it is," Camilli said. "Then he starts handing it out. It's insane."
'All bases were covered'
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was contacted. A DCFS spokeswoman had no information when contacted Sunday. The boy's guardians are being sought; arrests are "pending," Camilli said.
Nobody apparently was hurt in the incident. But a person familiar with the situation was angry with the response by police, saying that "somebody could have been hurt because they didn't go around and talk to kids about it" and make sure all drugs were recovered.
However, Chicago Heights District 170 Supt. Dollie Helsel said that "all bases were covered, truly," and she's confident "anything that was given out was retrieved."
There was a rumor -- which police couldn't confirm -- the boy had passed out or shown the drug to other kids at a community center in the south suburb Thursday.
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Ya think?
"The neighborhood around the school can be "a tough area," with street drug dealing sometimes visible from school grounds, school officials said."
Sheesh, what if those kids had started eating the stuff?
How sad that a child has to grow up in an environment such as that.
On the other hand, the trick I play on my 6-year old, is that I leave my loaded gun around and tell her "If you point this at people and pull the trigger, you will tickle the other person! But you shouldn't touch the gun until you're older." So far, she hasn't touched it. Based on that, I guess my little joke is harmless.
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That's right. It's all the fault of the police.
Only in Chicago.
They know to smoke it. It's not like they are in Kindegarten or something.
Yeah, like kids in other big cities don't grow up with dealer parents. Doesn't surprise me in the least.
First graders know how to light up a crack pipe? You're kidding, right?
Of course, this day and age, there are probably classes in school on "safe drug abuse."
Yes but in Chicago, nothing will happen more than a court appearance.
Would you send your kids to any public school in Cook County? I sure in the hell wouldn't.
How did these drugs get thru that "Drug Free Zone"? I thought here was lights, sirens, barbed wire and Swat teams on guard in the "Drug Free Zone". Also, was this individual handcuffed and escorted from the school grounds and told never to come back again? Now if this person had drawn a picture of a gun, whoa nellie, now that would be a very serious violation of school code.
That was my thought, too. The kid brings what he thinks is candy, to share with his friends.
I wouldnt HAVE kids and LIVE in a cesspool city let alone send them to publik skewls.
Zero tolerance drug policy. They'll probably kick the kid out of school for transporting and distributing drugs on school grounds.
Adults? Sorry, we can't prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.
"40 bags of rock in his book bag . . . when he gets to school he finds them in his book bag, and he knows this is 'candy' because this is what [people in his home] say it is," Camilli said. "Then he starts handing it out. It's insane."
OMG!
"'All bases were covered' " . . . and are belong to them.
So how much 'candy' has this little boy eaten?
Dumba&&'s are telling a little kid it's CANDY??? And leaving it around the house?
I'm sickened.
Yup. And unless his Daddy has some cash in reserve his supplier is going to want payment for the lost rocks. So the Daddy will now be on the run from the cops and the gang.
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