Drug-Laced Candy, Students Ill

On Thursday, October 6, 2022, Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to East Ouachita Middle School regarding three juveniles that had become ill and were receiving medical care. Deputies determined all three had consumed a homemade candy that possibly contained a narcotic. Deputies also identified and located a suspect, a juvenile, who allegedly gave the candy to the three who were ill. He was found to be in possession of homemade candy that he had brought from home and that he had shared with the three victims. A presumptive test of the candy, which appears to have been made from cerea...