CBS Evening News
Two people were arrested after a group of seven fourth-graders in Virginia ate gummy bears from a plastic baggie that later tested positive for fentanyl at a school, authorities said Wednesday.
Clifford Dugan and Nicole Sanders were both charged in connection with the incident at Central Elementary School on Tuesday. Staff initially believed the students were having an allergic reaction to something they had ingested at the school, Amherst County Public Schools said, with a sheriff’s office field test later establishing the presence of the powerful synthetic opioid in the bag from which the students had eaten the gummies.
“We have confirmed that the bag was brought from home by a student,” the school district added. Amherst County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Lt. Dallas Hill told CNN that the students had consumed “gummy bears” from the baggie, with the baggie “containing a residue” that later tested positive for fentanyl.