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Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL]
#5293975 - 02/13/06 08:20 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar February 11, 2006 - Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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RemainRandom50
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5294029 - 02/13/06 08:41 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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what a fucking joke.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: RemainRandom50]
#5294087 - 02/13/06 09:06 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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OH MY GOD How much money is going to be wasted dealing with this utter crap...
Edited by blackout (02/13/06 09:07 AM)
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dblaney
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5294120 - 02/13/06 09:23 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Utter insanity!
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: dblaney]
#5294137 - 02/13/06 09:30 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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wow. that's insane. the kid is 12. People are waaaaaaay waaaaaaay too paranoid. I can't imagine what was going through the cops heads when they brought the kid in.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: cookeman]
#5294143 - 02/13/06 09:37 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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The kid gets what he deserves, anyone can tell he is a true criminal! (sarcasm)
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dblaney
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5294148 - 02/13/06 09:39 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug.
Hmm, well that sheet of paper? It looks like blotter acid. That seasoning on your spaghetti you brought for lunch...it looks like marijuana. That mushroom for your science project looks like a shroom. Your dandruff looks like heroin, your sugar like coke, and your water like liquor.
Get a fucking brain you prohibitionist government.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5295044 - 02/13/06 02:26 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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tax dollars well spent. god i love this country
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5297389 - 02/13/06 10:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
"Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two."
What exactly does that mean?
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: TheHateCamel]
#5297488 - 02/13/06 11:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Not properly equipped? Since when were people born without noses and I'm sure they could have borrowed a straw from the cafeteria.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: HighGuy]
#5298009 - 02/14/06 03:17 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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> What exactly does that mean?
It means that the people writing this trash knew that they were being unreasonable, but had to find some kind of excuse to try and get people to buy into their "treat children like criminals to save us from having to do our job" policies.
Hmmm... interesting pattern....
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5298820 - 02/14/06 11:24 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Someone should egg the police station.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: veggie]
#5298976 - 02/14/06 12:01 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I love you America! Another drug-look-alike toting kid off the streets! Good job, law enforcement agencies of Illinois!
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: DNKYD]
#5299736 - 02/14/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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The other parents should all organize and have every kid in the school show up with a bag of sugar.
Where would they house all those kiddie criminals then? That would show 'em how stupid they are.
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Re: Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar [IL] [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5299750 - 02/14/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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ha... aurora is like 2 towns over from me... its a pile of shit
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