Texas School Drug Sting: 10 Students Arrested After Undercover Cop Poses As Student (VIDEO)

A four-month-long investigation involving an undercover cop posing as a student has led to the arrest of ten Angleton High School students on drug charges, the Houston Chronicle reports.

According to the report, five of the arrested students are adults and five are juveniles. Authorities told the paper the 28 charges against them related to the selling of drugs.

Lieutenant Chris Reioux told the paper the investigation began when the school district reached out to authorities.

"Basically the school district reached out to us," he told the Houston Chronicle. "We provided the undercover officer and funded the operation and they took care of getting the officer enrolled in the school."

Investigators told KTRK TV students sold prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Ritalin, and Hydrocodone, as well as marijuana.

The station reports that the school's motivation to seek help was a recent student survey about alcohol and drug prevalence.

"Nothing we've done has made a significant difference and if you keep doing the same thing and nothing changes, there is something wrong with you," Angleton ISD Superintendent Patricia Montgomery told KTRK.

Police told KHOU that a lot of the drugs sold at the school came from home medicine cabinets, and that the undercover agent has since left the school.

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Comments

[CR21]

12:51 AM on 01/16/2012

I would like to see this happen at schools in well-to-do communities.

[Yam716]

03:35 PM on 01/17/2012

I'm sure it does. We hear about those types of crimes less.

[hawaiianstile]

04:01 PM on 01/15/2012

wow undercover cop in the school, thats crazy, TV stuff i never thought happened in real life. sounds more like a sitcom episode. and hah only one of them aint white, suck on that stereotypical misconceptions. but my god they all deserve to be caught believing that tubby geezer was a high schooler. i just cant believe how the war on drugs has driven kids to really focus on pharmaceuticals.

[sibyl9]

02:38 PM on 01/19/2012

"and hah only one of them aint white, such on that...."
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Angleton, TX is predominately white youidiot.

[mikey09-12]

11:54 AM on 01/15/2012

Lots of senior citizens centers are now teaching grandparents how to keep them medications locked up and away from the teenagers. Most of the seniors quit worrying abt their meds when the grandkids got older, no longer fearing accidental ingestion, now they fear the grandkids stealing their medications.

[Kelly Groves Scott]

08:33 PM on 01/14/2012

21 Jump Street in action

[xkglady]

07:06 PM on 01/14/2012

Probable cause, that perhaps these charges will stick and that the attornies for the students will not use infringement or entrapment of the students' right to privacy! Afterall, parents rights are violated, their child can go to a clinic, receive birth control, testing for STD's, HIV/AIDS, pregnancy and can have an abortion without the parents' knowledge! More undercover work and observations in schools to protect innocent students from the effects of these dealers. Lives are endangered being around drug dealings.

[xkglady]

07:02 PM on 01/14/2012

Where are the parents when the alleged sale of drugs is coming from home medicine cabinets, otherwise, these students are buying them from others, on line or forging prescriptions to obtain drugs, in which it takes a person over the age of 18 to fill those prescriptions. More often than not, it's good to have undercover agents infiltrating schools, jobs, etc, as it's not only the students selling, buying or distributing drugs or perpetrating other illegal activities on school grounds.
Who is watching the youth, if they're free to contribute to the sale of illegal drugs?

[sarahayoung1]

06:17 PM on 01/14/2012

Oh geez, was this supposed to deter other kids from doing drugs? You could go into ANY highschool in the U.S., in any school district and there's a kid selling, buying, and doing drugs.

[The Forgotten Man]

12:06 PM on 01/15/2012

NO, it was meant to PUNISH the punk kids that were selling the drugs!! And YES, if kids think they may actually get arrested for buying pills, IMHO they would begin to think twice before buying them!!!! Prescription drugs are extremely dangerous, Especially for developing children, they have no place in our schools!
BYW, your Premise has no Logic!

[treemonkey]

04:51 PM on 01/15/2012

Maybe, but the level of development of the teenage brain precludes thinking twice before engaging in behavior that adults define as risky. My bigger fear is that these teenagers, arrested for behaviors that the age of the lawmakers would make one presume, behaved in similar manner back when they were teenagers, but just weren't subjected to the witch hunt mentality which they have wrought upon us, will now have many of their future options taken away from them, precisely when they are now old enough to understand the consequences. Quite frankly, the whole, holier than thou mindset that permeates the response to which I am responding is wrecking the future of those who really constitute the future for all of us. Some days I am happy that I will no longer be around to see the results of the gone crazy, and intolerance that the so called authorities have not only caused, but continue to ramp up. You go, schools and police. Make everybody a criminal. And I happen to be a teacher that really cares about educating all of our students, even the ones who may, for a time, be exploring paths that the self-righteous fear.

[cliveklg]

06:43 PM on 01/15/2012

Yes because jailing people for drugs has worked to stop drugs in this country oh so well.... oh wait.

Meanwhile Portugal, who legalized drugs, and taxed them to fund drug rehab programs is at an all time low in drug use. Imagine that.

[johntoinvent]

04:51 PM on 01/14/2012

Money is better spent on other things, that arresting for drug use

[XV8 Crisis Suit]

09:11 PM on 01/14/2012

Having seen drug abuse ruin kids lives and spread through a school like poison, I think it is a very worthwhile use of money.

[The Forgotten Man]

12:13 PM on 01/15/2012

IF, we were talking about Marijuana, you may have an argument. However, you are WAY off here, because Prescription Medicine has long-reaching devastating effects to the person as well as the community! Research into the long term effects of these drugs has NOT even been established, as many of them are fairly new! Addiction to these drugs is Very strong!

[dneil55859]

03:40 PM on 01/14/2012

well those kids look like they are gonna be real success stories in life

[Only Gets Better]

03:10 PM on 01/14/2012

Shooot. At My School, They Superintendants Paid Students About 25 Bucks Every Time They Could Get Them To Snitch On Each Other. It Was Kinda Funny. In My Circle Of Friends, Was A Snitch. He Was A Heavy User More Than Anyone Else I Knew. Everyday He Was High As A Kite. I Dont Remember How, But We Found Out He Had Been Snitching On Everyone. Haha. Kid Had To Move Out Of The District Cause Of Sooo Many Threats Against Him. Ahh, Good Times... Goood Times...

[megandvc]

07:23 PM on 01/14/2012

Why do you capitalize every first letter? Its freaking me out! lol

[Only Gets Better]

11:06 AM on 01/15/2012

Lol. Thats Funny. I Have No Idea. I Just Think It Looks Better Sometimes? And I Somehow Got In A Habit Of Doing It Alot. Haha.

[daughterusmc]

11:46 AM on 01/15/2012

It's called "weed".

[Nicon]

02:37 PM on 01/14/2012

Ok. let me get this straight.

Prohibition never works. Even a little bit. We can't keep drugs out of our schools or prisons because prohibition does not work.

So the school, realizing that prohibition has not helped keep their school drug free brought a cop in, to help with prohibition.

And now these evil drug dealers will be prison raped in to productive members of society?

Is that the plan? because that sounds like more useless prohibition.

[elamatt]

01:31 PM on 01/14/2012

This also happened in one district that I worked in; generally it's about the only way to find out the information. Kids keep secrets from adults Very Well!!!

[Lila Wilson]

04:49 PM on 01/14/2012

Probably because we as adults act like freakin children and don't listen.

[XV8 Crisis Suit]

09:12 PM on 01/14/2012

....or because children lie.

[mabinog]

12:49 PM on 01/14/2012

regular little randian free marketeers - that bunch....what is the problem?

[Ngonyama]

12:47 PM on 01/14/2012

Now that the war on terrrism is going out of fashion, why not reviving the war on drugs? I'm sure high school kids are easier opponents.

[cmr86]

03:01 AM on 01/14/2012

From the video: "...out of 100 drug tests randomly administered, only 5 have come back positive."

Really? Just 5%? Shennanigans.

[JStading]

12:20 PM on 01/14/2012

I believe it. Drug tests typically only detect drug use from the past few days, so it's unclear why you would think that more would come up positive.

[limonbadgerfan]

12:54 PM on 01/14/2012

Not true. Marijuana can stay in your system for weeks or months depending on how much you use it.

Does that clear things up for you?

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