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.
21 and 19 years old, still in High School? Or maybe they were selling on school grounds. Either way, these two have messed their lives up. Who knows how the families of their customers’ are coping, wondering why their child has changed so much.
That can happen. A high school buddy of my sons did not graduate until age 21. He was a sweet kid but very academically disinclined but his devoted parents were determined that he was going to stay in school, however, long it took for him to get his diploma, and no matter how difficult it made life for them.
Underdeveloped adolescent brains and drugs are a deadly mix - just ask poet Jim Carroll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt5OZJ1LrbQ
Buhler? Buhler?
Close to hope. Not much comfort that my twin boys are only 7.
they’re busting people for using drugs? i didn’t know we still did that.
i thought the fedgov was about supplying drugs for people these days
I have known quite a few people who have had their lives severely messed up by undercover cops. One had a girl at a bar in college come up to him and ask him if he could get her LSD. She was young and flirted with him, and he wasn’t into drugs, but he was into her, so her found some LSD and gave it to her, hoping to get to know her better in ways that she had suggested would happen. She then disappeared and three months later, she knocked on his door at 5am in her police uniform and arrested him.
I worked in restaurants with some ex-cons who gave me some valuable advice. They said used to be, you had to be a criminal to go to prison. Anymore, you just have to be a dumbass. I have found that to be true more than a few times, luckily, never to me.
Wow, I mean like that is really messed up, you know?
“I have known quite a few people who have had their lives severely messed up by undercover cops.”..
Excuse me?
There has been a lot of out-migration from Wichita to these towns because of lower rents. In some smaller towns in that part of the state, residents are buying up and destroying decrepit properties. Better a tiny town that looks like a park than a tiny town that looks like a slum.
Had to shake my head at that one also.
Excuse me? =It’ called entrapment....
A female cop came on to a friend of mine in a bar, drank all night with him, and promised she would sleep with him if she got her some LSD. He had never done it, but agreed to, found someone with some, bought it, and gave it to her and refused payment. Cost him a college scholarship and he did time in prison. I don’t see the point.
“...He had never done it...”
But he did THAT time....
Do the crime, do the time...
Just because you are stupid doesn’t mean forgiveness....
You're not man enough say what you are in public.
“...and unlawful use of a communication device.”
Uh, WHAT?!
Can anyone point me to the statute for this B.S.? Or is this another case of ‘we’ll make sh!t up add to the charges so it makes you look worse’.
The truth hurts doesn’t it.
There has to be more to the story than just finding a tab of LSD and giving it to an undercover (no matter the circumstances). The DA should not have even prosecuted that or at the very least got that guy into an early offender program.
But on the flip side, many here have no idea how quickly they can get caught up with “the law” and how it can turn your life upside down. It used to be said that ignorance is no excuse but today? There are so many damn “laws” and ordinances its damn near impossible to go through a day without breaking something. They’ll learn, eventually however when the badge they worship turns on them (and no, I don’t think every cop is like that, but every cop knows they have some really bad seeds within their ranks; they need to start sounding off more and drop that blue steel curtain)
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