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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
Did you lure each boys other into public bathrooms with promises of cocaine?
Did you lure other boys into public bathrooms with promises of cocaine?
Wait, let me guess. You know it's fake because the student says it's fake. Got it. Inmates running the asylum.
"His mother added that the boy was carrying the bag in his shoe at one point because he "thought it would be funny to play around."
"said Friday that possession of a look-alike substance could be charged as a felony ... The 12-year-old in this case was only charged with a misdemeanor, Aurora police confirmed Saturday."
(also from the Beacon News)
it's sugar not cocaine, so it's fake, not real. that's the problem with you zero tolerance zealots, you suspend a girl with a midol pill used for menstruation, don't allow drug-snifing dogs in schools, and don't allow mandatory drug testing but when a boy is caught with sugar, you suspend him. And when it's time for the pregnant student to get an abortion, you drive her to the mill and demand a permission slip from the parent when she goes on a class trip.
How do you know it's sugar? I'm asking if you're going to take the student's word that it's sugar.
If the relevant law in that case was against representing oneself as having a real gun, you might have a point. Can you show that there are such laws, or are you just flinging red herrings?
Yep. They know that because they tested it at the police station.
But you don't want to do that. So I'm asking you for the third time, how would you know it's sugar? Are you saying that you would take the student's word?
The school has a policy against look-alike drugs. Students are not allowed to carry around plastic baggies containing a white powder and say it's cocaine and invite other students to go into the bathroom to try some.
That's a no-no. It's in the student handbook. It's no secret. It's a school rule to which every student is expected to adhere.
Now, if a student breaks that rule they get suspended for two weeks. Even if the substance turns out to be other than cocaine.
How was the school to know it was actually sugar, by the way? This makes four requests. What's your problem in answering a simple question? Is it too tough? Did I use some big words?
yup, lunatic fringe, lol.
How was the school to know it was sugar? Fifth request.
Where does it say that happened?
The statists! How dare they violate the students' right to do that?!
FREEEEEDOMMMM!!!!!
"The sixth-grader at Waldo Middle School was charged after telling a classmate that the bag of powdered sugar was crack cocaine and inviting him to a bathroom to ingest it, Aurora police said Saturday."
http://www.nbc5.com/news/7004851/detail.html
"The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, told a classmate that he was bringin crack cocaine to school and later asked invited him into the school bathroom to try it. The look-alike substance was packaged like the actual narcotic, police said."
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_042233323.html
15 yards! Piling on!
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