LYNNWOOD — A 17-year-old Lynnwood High School student was arrested Tuesday, March 13 after allegedly giving another boy an LSD-laced sugar cube, officials said.
The boy who ate the sugar cube didn’t know it contained LSD, a hallucinogenic drug, said Lynnwood Police Department spokeswoman Shannon Sessions.
The boy who unwittingly took the drug went to the school nurse, who summoned the other boy. That’s when the nurse learned that the cube allegedly contained the drug, Sessions said
Police were called and the boy who provided the sugar cube was arrested before being released to his parents.
He faces an “emergency expulsion,” which means he won’t be able to return to school until school officials complete their investigation, said Debbie Jakala, an Edmonds School District spokeswoman.
The boy could face permanent expulsion depending on the outcome of the investigation.
“The school is going to continue to investigate but takes any threat to a student’s health, safety and well-being very seriously and is looking into all the details of what transpired today,” Jakala said.
The boy who consumed the sugar cube was sent home to recover, she said.
“We are very relieved that the student was able to be released directly to a family member and we are not aware of the student having any extreme or long-term health problems related to this,” Jakala said.
Jakala said the incident happened midmorning Tuesday. The boys, both juniors, knew each other and were in the same class at the time.
“This wasn’t a random attempt to provide an illegal substance to another,” Jakala said. “The students were acquainted with each other.”
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