By Highlands Community Council
Two Kennydale Elementary students were hospitalized Thursday after ingesting PCP after school, Renton police said.
The Renton Police Department got a call about 7:45 p.m. that two 8-year-old cousins were at Valley Medical Center after one of their parents became concerned they had ingested some kind of drug.
Once in the hospital, the physicians ran several tests, and it was confirmed both children had consumed PCP, the drug phencyclidine, a white crystalline powder that is readily soluble in water.
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By Highlands Community Council
Via the TNT.
A 27-year-old Mexican citizen living in Renton received a 10-year sentence in Seattle’s U.S. District Court Friday for cocaine trafficking. Florencio Villa-Cruz, also known as Rodolfo Salas-Zarate, will likely be deported following his prison term. According to court documents, he had been previously been deported following a four-month jail term in Snohomish County in 1999.
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By Highlands Community Council
Fourth arrest in Seattle cocaine-meth case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — A fourth man is being held in a Seattle-area cocaine and methamphetamine case in which more than $500,000 in cash was seized.
Javier “Leo” Acevedo-Morales was arrested Tuesday on a federal warrant charging him with conspiracy to distribute cocaine in King County, as well as possession of more than a pound each of cocaine and meth with intent to distribute in Renton, all on September 22.
Story continues at the Seattle PI.
