Barbara Jarvis was walking through a path on the property of St. Willibrord School in Chateauguay on Monday afternoon when she spotted a small baggie of brown powder in the grass.
“I was stunned. You don’t expect to find that in the school yard, especially an elementary school yard,” she told Global News.
Jarvis picked up the bag and brought it with her. She didn’t have time to turn it into the police on Monday because she was on her way to work. She brought it to the police station the next morning and filed a report.
“Tuesday morning a woman showed up saying she found a little bag of brownish powder,” confirmed Chateaguay Police spokesperson Nathalie Langevin.
Police tested the substance and found it was a drug in the amphetamine family. They say it might be meth or ecstasy.
“It makes me sick to my stomach. What if I didn’t find it and a child found it and ingested it?” said Jarvis. “He would have died. It would have been an instant death.”
Police say a drug user or dealer probably dropped it, but they’re calling it an isolated incident. They say parents should not be alarmed.
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“We’re working closely with all the schools of our territory and it’s the first incident that’s been reported to us so there’s not much to worry about,” said Langevin.
The New Frontiers School Board also called it an isolated incident, but they did send a letter home to parents warning kids once again not to pick things up that they find on the ground.
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