DRUG ARRESTS: Perris and Menifee students snared by undercover deputies

[Garion_55]

Source: The Press Enterprise

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.

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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Stories like these piss me off. It's not the job of the school officials to help the police meet their monthly drug bust quotas. The message that this sends to all the other students is 'You cant trust school officials. They will help the police lie to you, betray you, publicly embarrass you by busting you and turning you into a criminal.'

Think of the resources that went into this operation for how many months and they ended up with mostly small amounts of pot? They probably find more then that on a good friday night of harassing people.

And if the police havent identified the undercover officers, if the students have no idea who they are, other kids might get falsely accused of it and maybe hurt because of it.

BTW if none of that pisses you off maybe this related story will...

Cop Tricked Teen With Autism Into Buying Pot, Lawsuit Claims
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/undercover-officer-poses-student-drug-bust.html

[tabasco]

1. Lives ruined

One drug arrest at a time.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. By far the greatest health risk from illegal drugs is law enforcement.

[valerief]

3. Well, just so long as drunken, reckless-driving, rich teen killers can remain out of jail,

the world is a happy, happy place.

[jsr]

8. Jail is for poor people.

[PeoViejo]

4. More fresh meat for the Prison-Industrial-Complex

From public schools to private prison. The great transfer of wealth is underway.

[valerief]

9. Their goal? From fetus to sweatshop. nt

[hollowdweller]

5. I'm so glad that I dont' go to school anymore.

I feel so sorry for all the kids in school now.

I had so much fun sneaking out to the woods and getting high with my friends.

Coming in after lunch and stoned, getting into discussions in Sociology.

Not at school but getting high and making love with my girlfriend.

Going to concerts and back then they let you smoke.

Always made good grades, turned out ok I think.

Now for kids it's like a police state.

When I was a kid Buck Knives were in vogue. Everybody wore a buck 110 knife on their belt.
Now you'd be expelled and your parents would be in trouble too.

One thing that cuts across party lines is that liberals and tea party people both think we are moving too far in the direction of a police state.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Clearly there are too many police who are too scared to

deal with hard criminals, so they assault teenagers with pot instead.

[tabasco]

7. Yeah, when they're not raping them.

http://www.wvnstv.com/story/23920146/former-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-to-jail-time