Four used syringes with brown residue were confiscated from a first grade Chauncey Elementary School student's backpack yesterday after a teacher found them in the student's folder.
When Sheriff Pat Kelly and Deputy Doug Crites interviewed the first grader, the student denied knowing that the syringes were in his folder but added that his mother had been in his folder that morning, according to the news release from the Athens County Sheriff's Office.
The syringes have been sent to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation lab for testing, Kelly said.
The brown residue on the syringes could possibly be heroin, he said. We won't know until we get them tested.
The Sheriff's Office and Athens County Children services are conducting further investigation of this case.
There are no charges filed so far, and the child and his mother are at home for now, Kelly said.
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