Mother arrested after daughter brings THC edibles to school
09/12/2019 7:07 am PDT
via WGNO
COVINGTON, La. (WGNO) -- On Tuesday, a woman was arrested after it was discovered that her 11-year-old daughter brought THC-laced edibles to school and shared them with her classmates.
A St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's deputy assigned as a resource officer at a Mandeville-area school alerted detectives after a student had a reaction to a gummy candy she was given by a classmate.
The child had to be transported to a local hospital for medical attention.
The resource officer at the school learned that an 11-year-old had brought the gummies to the school and passed them out to other students.
At the child's residence, detectives located a variety of THC edibles and products, and related paraphernalia.
The child's mother, 30-year-old Alexandra Price, admitted that she had be making the products.
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