Modena grandmother held for trial on drug, endangerment charges

Detectives say 7-year-old grandson found her heroin, took it to school By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Pauline Bilinski-Munion Underscoring the danger posed by having heroin in the hands of first-graders, a county detective testified on Thursday, May 8, that the drug can be absorbed into the skin simply by touching it. The testimony came during the preliminary hearing for Pauline...

Alleged source of heroin at Caln Elementary arrested

D.A. blasts district for its handling of news that 7-year-old had drugs in school By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Pauline Bilinski-Munion After investigators identified the source of heroin – distributed by a first-grader at Caln Elementary to at least one classmate on Friday, May 3 – as the child’s grandmother, county detectives took her into custody two days later, the...