Posted on 03/21/2015 11:14:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
RENO COUNTY, Kan. -- Students at Hutchinson, Nickerson, and Buhler thought they had a new classmate, but it turns out he was an undercover officer with the Reno County Sheriff's Department to crack down on drugs.
Over the past two and a half weeks, six people, including four minors, were arrested for drug offenses including selling LSD and marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, sale of prescription drugs and unlawful use of a communication device.
The investigation started about five months ago after several teens overdosed on drugs. Students in Hutch say drugs aren't hard to find at school.
"I don't hear about LSD but weed and pills yeah," says Demetrius Vansyckle.
"All you have to do is ask who you see first and I'm sure they'll get it to you somehow," adds Krinn Stutzman.
Students in Hutch tell KAKE News they never noticed the officer, but once the news broke in Buhler, students like Kylee Ingalls say it's been the talk around school.
"We're all just kind of telling stories like 'oh he was in this class, he was in this class,' it was just kind of like a cool thing that's never happened here before," she says.
Ingalls says one of her classmates was arrested which was surprising for two reasons. It was someone she never would've expected, with a drug she didn't know was going around Buhler.
"I heard it was LSD," she says. "So kind of a pretty big deal. I mean, I know a few people that do marijuana here of course just like anywhere so I was pretty surprised at that.
Ingalls says it's a good thing the undercover officer came to these schools before the problem got any worse.
"It's kind of sad that we've realized that stuff was going on, but we're glad that he caught whoever it was and hopefully is getting help."
Jonathon Thiessen, 21, and Jaeden Kidd, 19, were both were jailed on $5,000 bonds. The names of the four minors arrested have not been released.
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It was a small college town in Oklahoma in the 1980s. There were a lot of arrests and prosecutions that were way out of line. I knew another guy who did six months in county lockup for having two marijuana roaches in his ashtray at a traffic stop.
Small town police in the south taught me to be very wary of law enforcement, because they can have a chip on their shoulder and want to make examples or go straight for revenue like pulling you over and ticketing you for what they claim was three miles an hour over their speed trap limits, when the car I had said I was two miles under. There are bad seeds and assholes in all walks of life, and police are no exception. They have the power to ruin your day or a lot more if they decide to do so. The majority of the run-ins I’ve had with cops have been positive, but by no means have they all been.
That’s not right. It’s one thing to catch someone in a crime; it’s another thing to set up the innocent for a crime.
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Sounds like entrapment to me.
He sure knew a quick way to get LSD. I think your friend embellished the story.
I knew where to get it if I wanted some, and I never did it. It wasn’t all that uncommon of a thing back then at the college we went to.
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