Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar

suntimes ^ | February 11, 2006

[Revel]

Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar

BY JUSTINA WANG 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.

Aurora Beacon-News

[Mojave]

Utopia realized though dope.

[mysterio]

Libertarians want this puppy dead so that they can use drugs.

[mysterio]

Utopia realized though dope.

"If we make drugs illegal, then no one will use them and we can all be safe!!!! All of us, and the puppies, too! Don't let libertarians kill those puppies!"

Utopia realized through authoritarian statism.

[Mojave]

Speaking of drug dogs:

[mysterio]

"I'm telling you, we have to put a footnote at the end of this Bill of Rights to keep people from using drugs. Otherwise, libertarians will kill puppies!"

[Mojave]

A fake quote. Your specialty.

How about a real one?

"The voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism." --Thomas Jefferson

[mysterio]

Yeah, let's play that game.

ARTICLE IV - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirrnation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

"Article lV says that we are supposed to be secure and not have to worry about searches and seizures, yet the government conducts searches all the time on the slightest of evidence. Our government seizes a billion dollars a year in homes, boats, planes and money, without ever filing a charge. Even more repugnant is the fact that the government often pays informants 25% of the seized assets to make allegations that are then used to obtain search warrants."

Don't think for a second that the founding fathers would toss out the Bill of Rights to appease you anti-drug zealots or to further your failed war on some drugs.

Better post some more sad pictures or something.

[mysterio]

""I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart - 1791)

[mysterio]

"... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual"
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany - 1819)

[mysterio]

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

- Thomas Jefferson

[ImphClinton]

I agree with the arrest.

What need did he have to put powder sugar in a small baggie. He could have just brought a one pound box or bag.

What is he was really trying to sell it to other kids as cocaine? What if he thought others would respect him more if he was a drug dealer?

Zero tolerance of drugs is what we need in our schools.

I have seem many people say just kidding right after telling the truth about a crime they really did commit. He said cocaine he should have to live with the consequence. I do not buy the science project excuse and I guess neither did his science teacher. This is just a crying mom trying to protect her not so innocent child.

[ImphClinton]

In small baggies being shown in bathrooms.

Don't think so.

Just what science project requires powdered sugar. Granulated perhaps but not powdered.

[Mojave]

Our government seizes a billion dollars a year in homes, boats, planes and money, without ever filing a charge.

That's been the fate of contraband for the last few hundred years in America.

[Mojave]

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson

Dope = Liberty

Not.

[Mojave]

"... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

Possession laws apply to both the pushers and clients.

[Mojave]

In small baggies being shown in bathrooms.

Together with a solicitation.

"The sixth-grader at Waldo Middle School was charged after telling a classmate that the bag of powdered sugar was crack cocaine and inviting him to a bathroom to ingest it, Aurora police said Saturday."

[Paul C. Jesup]

Actual post 496: Yet you seem to think that if illegal drugs are legalized that children will be allowed to use them like they were candy, as opposed to how smoking and beer is regulated. That is the logical gap in your thinking.

Mojave edited version of Paul CJ post 496:if illegal drugs are legalized that children will be allowed to use them like they were candy

Mojave: That seems to be your agenda.

Mojave, I take extreme offense to you re-editing my statement to make it look like I want children to be junkies.

And such actions as what you have done only show you have no true defense for your tyrannical beliefs.

[takenoprisoner]

"You are not acquainted with the current brand of 12-year-old classroom thugs, are you?"

When I was in the sixth grade we were the kings of the maypole. No under classman need try to get a handle before school or at recess.

All I know is that the same govt that gave us your 12 year old classroom thugs also gave us the war on some drugs and now the war on sugar and oregano.

America has gone nuts.

[Mojave]

I take extreme offense to you re-editing my statement

Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.

You're the selfcentered hypocrite here, you believe that only you have freedoms and rights and no one else does.