Originally Posted Thu, 2009-10-01 05:20
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Felony charges were forwarded to the State Attorney's Office for possible prosecution against four eighth-grade girls at New Smyrna Beach Middle School for ingesting prescription pills that resulted in all four being briefly hospitalized Monday morning after their teacher reported them to the principal for acting strangely in class.
Sheriff's investigators, who learned one of the girls brought the pills to school Oct. 5 and gave some to her friend who then gave some to two other friends, were initially sent to the school's clinic at 11 a.m. that day before two of them were transported by ambulance for a check-up at Bert Fish Medical Center and the other two were taken by a mother and grandmother to the hospital.
Two of the girls were taken by ambulance to Bert Fish Medical Center, the third by a parent and the fourth by a grandparent. Two of the girls are 13 and the other two are 14. One of the girls lives in New Smyrna Beach and the other three live in Edgewater.
The girl who brought the pills to school told Sheriff's investigators they were prescriptions for muscle-relaxant Soma, an attention deficit hyperactive medicine called Strattera and possibly a narcotic pain killer known as Lortab.