School staff exposed to vape pen with fentanyl

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Two pupil assets officers and a schoolhouse caregiver were exposed to fentanyl from a 17-year-old Sequoyah High School student’s vape pen Tuesday, MCSO spokesperson Rick Lavoie told WVLT News.

The Tenth Judicial District Attorney’s Office worked alongside Sheriff Tommy Jones and his section successful removing fentanyl residue from Sequoyah High School successful Monroe County, according to a Facebook post.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), conscionable 2 milligrams of fentanyl tin beryllium a lethal dose.

The pupil who brought the vape pen is successful custody, officials said.

The MCSO and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are investigating the incident, Lavoie said.

“The 2 officers and the caregiver was fixed Narcan and transported to the hospital. All are stable.” according to Chief Deputy of Monroe County Chris White.

One genitor told WVLT News “The schoolhouse is not telling immoderate of the parents what precisely is going on, lone said that the kids are harmless successful the schoolroom it’s conscionable not harmless for them to spell into the hallways.”

Another genitor said that students were kept wrong their classrooms arsenic the concern was being cleaned up.

Parents were allowed to prime up their kids astatine immoderate constituent of the day, according to Monroe County Schools Superintendent, Dr. Kristi Windsor. Random cause canine searches volition present beryllium implemented to assistance curb the cause occupation astatine the school.

“Moving forward, we volition enactment hard to instrumentality steps to curb immoderate cause issues successful our schools, including the usage of random cause canine searches some wrong our schools and each astir our schoolhouse grounds,” Windsor said. “We are already moving with section instrumentality enforcement to determination up with that plan, and parents and students should expect to spot those cause dogs astatine our schools connected a predominant ground successful the coming weeks and months.”

Windsor besides plans to person unit trained connected the signs and symptoms of cause usage and however to respond to those issues.

“As always, we volition proceed to enactment diligently to guarantee the information and information of each of our students and employees connected a regular basis, and we admit the practice of our parents and assemblage members successful educating our children connected the dangers of cause usage and experimentation,” said Windsor.

The schoolhouse volition beryllium closed Wednesday Dec. 1 and Thursday Dec. 2, for the schoolhouse to beryllium checked and cleared for re-entry. During the closure schoolhouse officials said teachers and unit volition person the grooming mentioned above.

All different Monroe Co. schools volition stay successful session.

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