Chief of Police, William A. Powell, graduate of the Aurora University School of Management
Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar — This is one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever read. The city officials in Aurora should be ashamed of themselves and I hope the city gets sued into oblivion.
And does this drug-lookalike law mean that every housewife in Aurora can be busted for the sugar jar? What about the grocery stores? Talk about shades of the Soviet Union. Everything is illegal.
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.
On the Aurora Police homepage the Chief welcomes phone calls and emails. I wonder how long that will last?
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That was a good one, I’m still chuckling. As serious as this case is, I really appreciated your humor.
Children are no longer allowed to do what was once considered normal childhood things – having a childhood crush is sexual harassment, playing tag is aggressive, playing cops and robbers, cowboys and indians will produce murderers, and look out if a child should try to snip another child’s hair with the blunted tip scissors you were asked to supply at school – you may be asked to take them for a pysch eval to insure the child is not harborin underlying homicidal tendancies. We are breeding a sick, sick society. There is something wrong when the innocents are the ones typically persecuted and prosecuted yet the instances with strong warning signs go unnoticed.
That is just stupid. i’m 39 and i have never heard such a stupid mistake!!!!!!!!!! they should be sued for what they all own!
Though this is ridiculous and apparently what our society has come to as I have personally heard of a friend being pulled over for using nasal spray and being accused of snorting cocaine in traffic none-the-less why was this boy showing the sugar to friends? If it was for a science project was it a need to say hey guys look at my bag of sugar or was it look at this bag of cocaine? Obviously hes gonna say and his friends would back him up that he was joking but thats only cuz he got caught. Very dumb that this became a police issue but unless instructed to bring a bag of any powder to school by his teacher this just shows poor lack of judgment on the kids part and probably does deserve a punishment through the school!