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Verbatim: A 13-year-old's drug deal business plan
By THOMAS LAKE
Published February 8, 2007
NEW PORT RICHEY — A young businessman suffered defeat this week when the enemy found his to-do list.
The boy, 13, dropped his wallet on Wednesday at Gulf Middle School, according to a New Port Richey police report.
A fellow student found it and gave to a teacher, who gave it to a police officer, who found 0.035 ounces of cocaine and a Risperdal pill and seven Lexapro tablets. (The latter two drugs are used to treat mental disorders.) They were enough to send the boy to a juvenile assessment center on drug-possession charges. The St. Petersburg Times is not naming the boy because of his age.
The handwritten note found alongside the drugs appeared to be the boy’s business plan, misspellings and grammatical errors included:
(Name deleted) owe’s me weed or money
Get -— white widdow seeds, Dro seeds, and Regular High mid’s seeds 20$-40$ Dollars
lay low for a while. Don’t bring s--- to school cant get Busted or Dead. If I sell, sell out my house And Dont Bring or sell to Anyone I Dont Kno. Always have weed on me start gettin paid start growin weed plants (name deleted) is gonna help me grow plants were gonna grow plants in (name deleted) attic or on a neighbors back porch No one live’s their. Get a gun to carry around wen I have to do business or sell weed or cocaine!
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Thomas Lake can be reached at tlake@sptimes.com or 1-800-333-7505, ext. 6245.
[Last modified February 8, 2007, 23:24:46]
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