This little bugger is putting fake cocaine on his cheerios! That's a life sentence!!! You brownshirts should join your DEA goon buddies and kick his door in tonight!
Check out the look on his face. Junkie for sure!
Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by Revel
Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar
BY JUSTINA WANG A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed.
The sixth-grade student at Waldo Middle School was also suspended for two weeks from school after showing the bag of powdered sugar to his friends.
The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, said he brought the bag to school to ask his science teacher if he could run an experiment using sugar.
Two other boys asked if the bag contained cocaine after he showed it to them in the bathroom Wednesday morning, the boy's mother said.
He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, "just kidding," she said.
Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments. The youngster was taken to the police station and detained, before being released to his parents that afternoon.
"This is getting ridiculous," said the boy's mother. "They treated my son like a criminal. .. . This is no way to treat a 12-year-old kid."
East Aurora School District officials declined to comment on the case, citing privacy issues.
The district issued a written statement, which said: "The dangers of illegal drugs and controlled substances are clear.
Could get probation "Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two."
The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug.
Penalties for juveniles are decided on a case-by-case basis, but if convicted, the sixth-grader could likely face up to five years' probation, said Jeffery Jefko, deputy director of Kane County juvenile court services.
Juveniles who have prior criminal records could also be placed in a residential treatment program if convicted, he said.
Aurora Beacon-News
School policy aside, I'm for charging the kid with the crime committed. He was charged with violating the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, 720 ILCS 570/404(b), unlawful distribution of a look-alike substance, a Class 3 felony.
I doubt, however, that they can make that charge stick. Because of that, I feel they should drop the charge to violating the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, 720 ILCS 570/404(c), unlawful possession of a look-alike substance, a petty offense.
Mixed with cocaine.
if he had shot the kid that ask him if he had coke on him when he got out of prison he would be able to get all the financial aid he wanted to attend college.Does that seem just a touch bass achwards to you?Or do you like the idea of him not ever having a shot of going to college if he is convicted of having sugar when there are rapist and child molester that are in college right now getting student aid that he will never be eligible for?
It's strike one on the three strikes counter.
I already gave you the answer. If you don't like the answer, that is not my problem.
So, this law is a pile of BS, but you advocate enforcing it to the full extent anyway?
Very informative..and scary.
I already gave you the answer. If you don't like the answer, that is not my problem
Cleverness does not necessarily beget cleverness.
Hey, not so fast there!
They ought to be given the opportunity to go voluntarily. If they decline the offer, well, then go round 'em up. :)
"Where is this boy's dad?"
Probably up the river for twenty in Joliet...
...for dealing Karo syrup as freebase.
"What? you have 2 canisters on your counter, one marked cocaine and one marked sugar and he grabbed the wrong one?"
ROFLMAO! Wish I could have seen her face.
"Well, pin a rose on you."
As long as you don't pin a felony on him as a result. That rose could be a look-alike drug for poppies, and we don't want any look-alike-heroin addicts on FR.
"They sell little baggies one isle over. I think we can make the connection. It's time to nail the Kroger cartel once and for all."
You know you're going to be inciting some prosecutor to bust Kroger for possession of drug paraphernalia now, doncha? The Feds could use a supermarket chain to go with their cathouse and powerboat fleet.
I betcha Walmart moves tons of fake drugs. I nominate paulsen and Mojave to crack some skulls!
But the cafeteria workers all need to be put away for life!
I've always liked that latter one. "No fighting" because "fighting" is always bad, even in self-defense, m'kay? Why? Because it's bad, m'kay, and we can't have bad things in school, m'kay?
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