Damn Shame: 8 Year Old Third Grader Caught With 60 Bags Of Heroin After Teachers See Him Passing Them Out Like Candy!!

"Oh my Lord Jesus, there but by the grace of God these kids are all right," said Davis of Wilkinsburg, PA, whose two granddaughters attend Turner Elementary School. "It's very scary to hear that this happened in a school full of small children."

Wilkinsburg police said teachers became suspicious Tuesday afternoon when they saw an 8-year-old boy repeatedly "rummaging" through his pockets. They confronted him and found 60 single-dose bags, known as stamp bags, in his pockets, police Chief Ophelia "Cookie" Coleman said.

A full stamp bag sells for about $10 on the street, she said. Who is really responsible for this mess, mother?! father?! Continue reading..

The bags each contained residue that police, using a field test kit, determined was heroin, Coleman said. Teachers found 18 empty stamp bags in a trash can. The bags, stamped with the words "Trust Me," were sent to the Allegheny County Crime Lab for analysis and confirmation of the heroin finding, Coleman said.

"This is not a reflection on Turner Elementary School; this speaks to the environment this child was living in," Coleman said.

Coleman said school officials and police met with the boy and his mother and learned he is not supposed to be attending the school because he lives in Pittsburgh. Authorities did not identify the family.

Investigators have a "pretty good idea" where the drugs came from but made no arrests as of Wednesday evening, Coleman said. Wilkinsburg police contacted the District Attorney's Office to discuss possible charges, but Coleman declined to elaborate.

She said the boy indicated "he was emulating what he had seen on the streets -- selling drugs."

The boy gave the stamp bags to other children. Superintendent Archie D. Perrin Jr. said school officials talked to each of the children who came in contact with the heroin and warned their parents to be alert for behavior changes. He said he received no reports of children becoming sick.

Janitors searched the school for signs of drugs but found none, Perrin said. The school plans to meet with parents soon to discuss the incident, and officials sent a letter home with students explaining some of what happened.

"As a precaution, the district is advising all parents to talk to their children about any interaction they might have had with the student and, possibly, the substance, and take appropriate action," the letter said.

The county Department of Children, Youth and Families is involved, and Perrin said the student had not returned to school.

Jan Gooden, 53, has a foster child who attends fourth grade at Turner. She said she was saddened to hear about the heroin incident.

"I think it's the parents' fault," Gooden said. "A child that age can't buy drugs. It had to come from home, and that is a shame.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review

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