Miami boy, 5, shows up at school with bag of pot

[CBulla]

I wonder how it was tipped off....

http://news-press.com/news/local_state/040323potupdate.html

Miami boy, 5, shows up at school with bag of pot


By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published by news-press.com on March 23, 2004

MIAMI -- Police say a 5-year-old boy brought a bag of marijuana to school and was sprinkling it over a friend's lasagna at the school cafeteria before a monitor intervened.

Police say it is unclear whether the kindergartner at Gratigny Elementary School even knew he was carrying the drugs on Monday.

The lasagna was confiscated before the other boy had a chance to eat it.

Initially, the boy, who had tried to hide the bag with his feet when the monitor approached him, "may have said it was oregano," said Mayco Villafana, spokesman for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

"The boy is not going to be charged," Villafana said. "The focus is on the child's environment and what issues could have led to a child having a bag of marijuana in school."

The family of the kindergartner who had the marijuana is under the scrutiny of school police and state child-welfare authorities.

School police took the matter to the state attorney's office and in addition to speaking with the boy's family, police are looking into whether an older friend asked the boy to hold the plastic bag. The case was also referred to Florida's Department of Children and Families, Villafana said.

After speaking with police, the boys were allowed to return to their kindergarten class. Both sets of parents were contacted about the police inquiry. No names were released.

 

[mikswi]

There was another one I heard today about a kid in kindergarten, having $10,000 in crack in his lunch bag. He was taken away from his parents by the state for now. There was insinuations that this was not the first time drugs were found in their home.

It has become a sad world when children are exposed to this type of lifestyle. Its becoming more and more common. It used to be just a few, whose parents were burnouts from the 60's.

Now we have schools being shot up, 14 year olds having sex party's, and a common attitude among youth that society owes them something.

O.K, thats enough of my rantings. Im not looking to hijack this thread.

 

[mikswi]

Hey CBulla, the pic of you in your profile shows you diving with no wetsuit. Does the water really get that warm where you dive or are you just naked in that pic? )

 

[BIGSAGE136]

Hear about the fifth grade boys caught burying guns in the sandbox to kill a 3rd grade girl they didnt like? Search it! Two 8 year old boys and an 11 year old friend. Caught burying weapons in a sandbox to kill a 3rd grader that teased them.

If I wasnt a Miami native I would be shocked. Not a joke.

 

[MSP Rescue Diver]

Hey CBulla, the pic of you in your profile shows you diving with no wetsuit. Does the water really get that warm where you dive or are you just naked in that pic? )

Nope - he dives naked. He heard that everything looks bigger underwater.

Marc

 

[CBulla]

:rofl: Marc!

Mikswi - to answer your Q: that pic was taken in Key Largo in October. Water temp was a brisk, are you ready, 87°! Wetsuit optional

To be honest, from November through February are the only times I've worn a wetsuit. Last weekend at Ft Lauderdale I was in my shorts again as the water was tipping in at 75° and I was more than comfortable.

 

[jonnythan]

$10k in crack, even assuming very expensive rocks at $100 each, is still 100 rocks. More common is $20 or so a rock, and that would be a lot of rocks

 

[mikswi]

$10k in crack, even assuming very expensive rocks at $100 each, is still 100 rocks. More common is $20 or so a rock, and that would be a lot of rocks

I have no idea what the stuff sells for or what $10,000 represents for quantity. I just have never been exposed to that lifestyle. Well, I HAVE been exposed to it, I just chose not to try it and didnt hang around those that did.

Now if you asked me about Jack Daniels!!!! Thats almost 335 bottles of the 1.75liter size )

 

[jonnythan]

Well at street prices, that would be approximately 133 grams of crack. 50 grams gets an adult a minimum of 10 years for trafficking

 

[FrankF]

Jonnythan,

I think I might want you to take a crack test the next time I dive with you--just to be safe!

Frank