The 10//28 Houston Chronicle reported that an 11 year-old Baytown, Texas boy has been charged with possession of crack cocaine after a classmate, to whom he had shown the substance, told a teacher at the Cedar Bayou Junior School. School authorities alerted police who turned the boy over to Harris County juvenile authorities.

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle-old/metropolitan/97/10/29/show-and-jail.2-0.html

The 10//28 Houston Chronicle reported that an 11 year-old Baytown, Texas boy has been charged with possession of crack cocaine after a classmate, to whom he had shown the substance, told a teacher at the Cedar Bayou Junior School. School authorities alerted police who turned the boy over to Harris County juvenile authorities.

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle-old/metropolitan/97/10/29/show-and-jail.2-0.html

The 10//28 Houston Chronicle reported that an 11 year-old Baytown, Texas boy has been charged with possession of crack cocaine after a classmate, to whom he had shown the substance, told a teacher at the Cedar Bayou Junior School. School authorities alerted police who turned the boy over to Harris County juvenile authorities.

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle-old/metropolitan/97/10/29/show-and-jail.2-0.html

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