Cops go undercover for entire high school semester, arrest 24 for dealing drugs

[tsai3904]

About two dozen students were arrested Thursday morning, Dec. 12, at high schools in Menifee and Perris as part of a semester-long undercover drug investigation in which deputies posed as students, authorities said.

Deputies descended on the campuses of Paloma Valley High School and Perris High School during second period to make the arrests, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said.

Lt. Paul Bennett said deputies identified a total of 25 students, two of whom are adults, suspected of selling drugs. Officers served 22 drug-related arrest warrants on campus Thursday. Three suspects weren’t in school Thursday and are still at large, he said.

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Two deputies – a woman at Perris and a man at Paloma – had been posing as students since the beginning of the school year in an attempt to ferret out drug dealing on campus. Over the course of the investigation, deputies seized drugs including marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, hashish and various prescription pills, the release said. Bennett said most of the drug buys were for small amounts of marijuana.

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[pcosmar]

Wow..
Public education.. Those kids just learned something.

I wonder how much it cost to arrest 22 minors for minor drug sales.??

 

[Anti Federalist]

Freedom

 

[tod evans]

The cops, the school, the teachers...........All paid for with tax dollars.

The ruined lives.........Those too will be paid for with tax-dollars.

 

[PRB]

how do you get cops to look under 18?

 

[phill4paul]

Wow..
Public education.. Those kids just learned something.

I wonder how much it cost to arrest 22 minors for minor drug sales.??

Avg. Deputy wage in California: $52k x 2 = $104k
$104k / 25 = $4k per bust (+/-)

 

[Philhelm]

Well, I commend the officers for not using an attractive young woman to trick a lonely guy with down's syndrome to fall in love with her and buy drugs to please her. I commend them, this time, for such tender mercy.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

how do you get cops to look under 18?

Is that a riddle?

If not, wtf does 18 look like?

 

[PRB]

Is that a riddle?

If not, wtf does 18 look like?

No, it's not a riddle, to think there's no such thing as looking 18 or under vs 22 or older ignores the reality of people who complain about being carded when buying smokes and alcohol, or people who use the defense "she looked legal" in statutory rape cases.

 

[dannno]

how do you get cops to look under 18?

When I was 21 people accused me of looking 14.

Girls are even easier - some girls who are 14 or 15 look like they are in their 20s and can buy alcohol and crap - some girls who are 26 still look 14.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

No, it's not a riddle, to think there's no such thing as looking 18 or under vs 22 or older ignores the reality of people who complain about being carded when buying smokes and alcohol, or people who use the defense "she looked legal" in statutory rape cases.

I wasn't asking if it was a riddle to be disrespectful. I thought maybe there was a punchline.

When I'm "carded" for alcohol, I'm told the corporate policy is to card anyone who looks younger than 40. If companies don't trust their wide range of employees to know the difference between 21 and 40, what would make me think there's a giant distinction between 18 and 22?

You tell me. How do YOU tell the difference between 18 and 22?

 

[PRB]

I wasn't asking if it was a riddle to be disrespectful. I thought maybe there was a punchline.

When I'm "carded" for alcohol, I'm told the corporate policy is to card anyone who looks younger than 40. If companies don't trust their wide range of employees to know the difference between 21 and 40, what would make me think there's a giant distinction between 18 and 22?

You tell me. How do YOU tell the difference between 18 and 22?

Their cut off is 40, meaning you'd have to decide first if the person is under 40 or over 40. Regardless of whether he/she is over 21.

Usually I tell by the way a person talks, I'm not always right, but for a person working undercover to act 5 years younger, personally I think raises suspicions easily (not to say they can't just deny all the way, as there'd be no way to prove it).

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

but for a person working undercover to act 5 years younger, personally I think raises suspicions easily

So... you are claiming that you are good at reading people, or bad at reading people?

I know plenty of people that "act" 5 years younger or older, and they aren't even smart enough to play a part. That's just where they live.

 

[DamianTV]

Their cut off is 40, meaning you'd have to decide first if the person is under 40 or over 40. Regardless of whether he/she is over 21.

Usually I tell by the way a person talks, I'm not always right, but for a person working undercover to act 5 years younger, personally I think raises suspicions easily (not to say they can't just deny all the way, as there'd be no way to prove it).

Yeah, like not seeing them at a BAR after School. Thats not a Dead Giveaway or nuthin...

Other side of the coin, the kids in schools are so forcibly medicated into zombielike states, they are probably unable to notice even if it were to slap them across the face or shoot them in the kneecaps.

 

[catfeathers]

I looked older than my age from 10 to mid teens. When I was 19 and pregnant with my oldest child an old woman went off on my mother when we were shopping together in a grocery store. She started yelling about letting a baby have a baby. My mom yelled back at her "She's 19 and married, she can have a baby if she wants to!" I was a waitress in a bar at about 24 and got asked a few times if I was old enough to work there.
I still have people looking at me a little funny when I talk about my granddaughter.

 

[catfeathers]

Ever watch 21 Jump Street? TV show, not movie.

 

[PRB]

So... you are claiming that you are good at reading people, or bad at reading people?

I know plenty of people that "act" 5 years younger or older, and they aren't even smart enough to play a part. That's just where they live.

I use common sense when reading people, I'm neither 0% nor 100% right.

 

[Henry Rogue]

 

[catfeathers]

About :32 Johnny Depp kind of looks like Harry Potter.

 

[mad cow]

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