Campus Operation : 6 Brea-Olinda Students Charged With Selling Cocaine, Marijuana
Six Brea-Olinda High School students were arrested and charged Tuesday with selling small amounts of cocaine and marijuana on campus to an undercover officer over the past five months, police said.
Brea Police Lt. Bill Lentini said most of the drug sales took place at the school and that school officials worked with police on the case.
The arrests, which were made between 7 and 8:30 a.m. at the homes of the 16- to 18-year-old students, concluded an investigation that began when school started in September, Lentini said.
According to police, the students, all of them male, were taken into custody on arrest warrants and booked into Orange County Juvenile Hall. One student is 18, but was a juvenile when he allegedly sold the officer drugs. His name was not released.
Lentini said the youths several times sold the undercover officer from one-quarter to one-half gram of cocaine, as well as small amounts of marijuana.
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