Naperville police testing sticky bears that made 12 understudies wiped out

A 17-year-old Naperville North High School understudy was in police guardianship Tuesday on doubt that he conveyed sticky bears bound with cannabis to class, making 12 understudies become ill, powers said.

The understudies were taken to Edward Hospital in Naperville starting around 10:30 a.m. whining of side effects including quick heart rates, wooziness and dry mouths, Naperville police Cmdr. Jason Arres said.

Edward representative Keith Hartenberger said every one of the understudies had been dealt with for ingestion of the sticky bears and discharged by 5 p.m.

Arres said the understudies told police that they think the chewy candies contained weed oil, yet police have not affirmed whether that is valid. Arres said police, working with a wrongdoing lab, will test the sweet to figure out what substance, assuming any, was included.

Police additionally are taking after leads about different understudies who may have been included and researching how the confection got into the school, how it was conveyed and whether the understudies who ate it knew it may have contained another substance.

In the interim, the understudy blamed for conveying the sticky bears to class was at the Naperville police headquarters as specialists worked with the school and Naperville Unit District 203 to decide the proper discipline, Arres said.

"We have to make sense of what level of responsibility we have to hold them at," he said.

Naperville North Principal Stephanie Posey let guardians think about the wellbeing worry in an email early Tuesday evening. The understudies were taken to the healing facility "for wellbeing insurances," Posey's email said.

"This confection made those understudies both uncomfortable and wiped out, so they were taken to the medical attendant's office for care," Posey said in the email. "Every understudy had shifting degrees of uneasiness and consequent treatment."

Two different understudies were taken to Edward Hospital for irrelevant medicinal issues, Arres and Hartenberger said. One of them stayed under perception late Tuesday evening.

Region 203 representative Michelle Fregoso said authorities urge guardians to converse with their kids about settling on solid decisions and that school authorities can recommend group assets that bolster prosperity.