Two students hospitalised after teenage boy brings cocaine-filled balloons to school
Who doesn't love playing with balloons. In this incident, however, a regular fun toy accessory turns into a nightmare. Two California students were hospitalized after a 13-year-old brought cocaine-filled balloons to his school. The drug-filled deflated balloons were found by a group of students on the playground who played with them until they started feeling dizzy and raised an alarm.
The students alerted officials at Carl F. Smith Middle School in Terra Bella about the incident at around 8:40 am. The school officials initially mistook the cocaine for flour but decided to notify the Tulare County Sheriff's office as a precautionary measure. It was only when narcotics officers tested the substance that the mystery white powder was confirmed to be cocaine. It is believed that around 13 students were exposed to the substance.
