There have been a few stories of late in the media about kids being mixed up with drugs. Directly so with 13-year-old Frank Korondi who overdosed after snorting and smoking heroin, as well as indirectly with the story about a five-year-old child in Dundee, Scotland, finding speed in a school work tray and bringing it home but luckily not ingesting it.
And now there is the case of a six-year-old boy opening up his Scooby-Doo backpack in class in response to a teacher’s request for some files and instead a sandwich bag, full of smaller marijuana baggies, falling out. His father, 29-year-old Corey Randle, had put about 35 grams of pot in his son’s school bag but, because he had put both of them in a closet, figured it would be safe there. When he discovered that his son had foiled his foolproof plan by, improbably, taking his schoolbag to school, he ran after him. By the time he got to the school the pot had already been spilled. Unperturbed he angrily took his son and the bag home. Police contacted the boy’s mother who then took them to his home; father and son were found upstairs.
Randle, the elder, is being charged with fifth-degree sale of a controlled substance, and faces up to five years in prison. He had only been selling marijuana for about 2 weeks in order to pay for, get this, his cigarettes.
