'Drug cookies' sold to kids
2006-05-12 15:20
Johannesburg - A Vosloorus man was arrested for allegedly selling drug-laced cookies to schoolchildren, said East Rand police on Friday.
Superintendent Andy Pieke said that a schoolteacher in Eastfield noticed children who bought the cookies at R250 each "weren't walking fine" after eating them.
He said: "The substance found in the cookies looks green, but police are not certain it is dagga."
The 23-year-old cookie seller was arrested on Thursday would appear in a Vosloorus court soon to be charged with dealing in drugs.
The cookies had been sent off for analysis.
- SAPA