Brownstown students facing drug charges

BROWNSTOWN - Two Brownstown Central High School students face drug-related charges after an investigation into an alleged drug deal at the school Tuesday.

According to a report from Brownstown Officer Tom Hanner, the incident that led to the arrest of the youths, whose names were not released, began when Assistant Principal Greg Walker called Hanner to the school.

Walker told Hanner he had received information that a drug deal had occurred in the school. Walker said he located an unspecified quantity of pills on one student. Walker also said he had been able to determine that a transaction had occurred between two students with one paying for the other for the pills.
Hanner said he found during his investigation that the pills were a Schedule III controlled substance.

At that time, he arrested one of the students for possession of a Schedule III controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, a Class C felony.
A second student faces a charge of dealing in a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, a Class A felony, as well as possession of paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor.

The two students were taken to the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Center.