Police are investigating after they say a kindergarten student in Trenton, New Jersey brought 30 packs of heroin to school.
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He later took it out again, and the teacher realized it appeared to be a packet of heroin.
The 5-year-old boy, a student at the International Academy of Trenton on the 700 block of Bellevue Avenue, was playing with a white packet that his teacher thought was a candy wrapper, police spokesman Lt. Varn said.
But when he brought it back out, the teacher confiscated it and realised it was a packet of heroin, officials said. Upon further inspection, detectives were called in and found 29 additional packets of heroin in the boy’s lunchbox. “We will have to become more of a police state”, said Kevin Davis, who has a grandchild at the school.
“IAT is following the procedures specified by the law and is working closely with local authorities to handle this matter”, a spokesperson wrote.
The boy tested negative for opioids, Varn said.
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