Mother arrested in case of boy bringing heroin to school
Thursday, April 15, 2010
By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The mother of an 8-year-old boy who brought nearly $1,000 worth of heroin to a Wilkinsburg elementary school in his backpack has been arrested, Wilkinsburg police say.

Police would not release the woman's name or what she was charged with.

A third grade teacher at Turner Elementary School saw the boy fumbling with something in his pockets during state standardized testing Tuesday morning. The boy was found to have 60 bags of a white substance that initially tested positive for heroin. Police later found 18 of the bags, some of them opened, in a classroom trash can. Police said the bags were valued at about $10 each.

Police were expected to release the woman's name later today.