Three NMS Students Arrested On Drug Charges

By Andrew Gorosko

Police report they arrested three students who attend Newtown Middle School in connection with an incident involving the drug oxycodone.

Police did not disclose the identities of the youths arrested, declining to reveal their genders or ages. State law shields the identities of people under age 18 who are charged with crimes. The school at 11 Queen Street houses students in the seventh and eighth grades.

Oxycodone is a narcotic prescription drug that is used to relieve moderate to severe pain.

Police said that on March 1 and March 2, one youth brought to the school his/her oxycodone prescription and distributed some to another youth, who then distributed some to yet another youth.

The youth who brought the drug to school was arrested on two counts of failure to retain an original prescription container and on two counts of distribution of a controlled substance.

The youth who initially received the drug was arrested on charges of possession of a narcotic and distribution of a controlled substance.

The youth who was the secondary recipient of the drug was arrested on a charge of possession of a narcotic.

The youths whom police arrested in the case turned themselves over to police at the police station on April 15 and April 18 after learning of the warrants that police held for their arrests.

The three youths each were released into the custody of their parents and are each scheduled to appear on May 2 in Danbury Juvenile Court, police said. Such court proceedings are not public.

School Resource Officer Leonard Penna investigated the drug case.