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The Middle School Fentanyl Bust

Horizon Middle School, site of a recent fentanyl bust.

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It’s often frightful to contemplate how things that were wrong in the past, when the country was still in halfway normal conditions, became much worse lately. By golly, when I was knee high to a cricket, hard drugs meant speed pills, dumb dust, and heroin. Nowadays, as young whippersnappers well know, it’s meth, crack, and fentanyl. Why, they even got horse tranquilizer in Philly that turns you into zombie!

My high school, despite being one of the better ones in the city, did have a middling drug problem. My favorite anecdote about the topic was when a cop with a pair of drug dogs strolled right past a dealer. At that instant, he looked like he was experiencing a much-deserved apparition from the Angel of Death. Moments before, I’d walked past him too—bless his heart—and he smelled like a reggae concert. (Why were the drug dogs neglecting their duties? Were they too distracted by the rich aroma of cardboard-flavored lasagna baking in the cafeteria?) When I was a senior, the party was over when a major raid in town left the stoners complaining to the end that weed was unobtainable. Clearly it was a crippling blow to the local distribution network; let it not be said that drug busts are ineffective!

On the other hand, my middle school had zero dope whatsoever. It was pretty much unthinkable. That’s about the only good thing I can say about that hellhole infested with snotty yuppie spawn. I’m guessing that pot smoke in the bathroom would’ve sent the staff into DEFCON1.

Times Have Changed

Things seem to be a little different lately. Back on December 11, a kid at the Horizon Middle School in Moorhead, Minnesota got busted for dope. This wasn’t a quarter baggie of pot; it was a large quantity of deadly opioids. Well, who would do a thing like that? There’s much we don’t know for sure, but some details have emerged. As Townhall described it:

Approximately 1,500 pills were allegedly in the student’s possession. The juvenile, age 13, was arrested for 1st Degree Possession of a Controlled Substance and transported to the West Central Juvenile Detention Center. His parents were notified.

Field tests confirmed the counterfeit M30 pills likely contained fentanyl, with lab results pending; the boy faces first-degree possession charges and was taken to juvenile detention.

According to the latest statistics counted in August 2025, drug overdoses—largely fentanyl—killed 72,836 Americans within a year’s time. Although this is sharply down from the peak of approximately 111,000 during the Biden junta, the 2025 figure alone is comparable to American casualties for the duration of the Vietnam War. As harmful as it is for adults who are typically habitual users, surely it would be considerably more deadly for children with smaller bodies and no opiate tolerance. All told, pushing fentanyl in a middle school is particularly monstrous. The school administrators and police officials were quite appalled, which certainly is understandable. If Governor Tampon Tim had anything to say about it, though, I haven’t heard it thus far.

I have to wonder why the kid would carry such a large stash. It would’ve been more than enough to poison half the school. Just how much dope was he expecting to sell in a single day? Since pushers usually get away with many transactions before they get busted, I have to wonder if this was his first rodeo. It’s purely speculative, of course, but what else could the junior amateur pharmacist have been up to before then? The news reports say that the street value of the 1,500 pills is estimated at $35,000. Whatever the wholesale price of all that was, surely this is beyond the resources of a 13-year-old pusher. It certainly looks like a major criminal network was using this 7th grader to sell lethal dope at his school. If he clammed up during his interrogation, then we’ll never know who his suppliers are.

What’s up with Horizon Middle School?

Whether or not a country is nice place to live isn’t entirely some random accident of geography, as our liberal friends would have it. Since readers here aren’t in the ideological kiddie pool, we already know that a critical determining factor is about what kind of people live there and form the cultural landscape. The same principle applies to neighborhoods. Despite minority motormouths mumbling about “the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel” as if we forced them to live on cursed ground, ghettoes are the way they are because of who lives there.

The same general principle applies to schools. So who’s at Horizon Middle School? One source has this to say:

Horizon Middle School faces significant socioeconomic challenges, with 46.7% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. This high rate of economic disadvantage likely contributes to the school’s overall academic performance challenges. Additionally, the school’s performance varies significantly across different student subgroups, with African American, Hispanic, and Multi-racial students, as well as English Language Learners and Special Education students, tending to perform below the school’s overall average. To address these issues, the school may need to implement more targeted interventions, strengthen support for vulnerable student populations, and explore collaborative opportunities with higher-performing schools in the area.

Okay, just a few more special social leveling programs, and surely they’ll have it all sorted. Roger that. What’s with capitalizing “multi-racial” though? Did (((some journalist))) at Associated Press start a new trend again? As for the present demographic breakdown, this is:

• White: 65.2%
• African American: 12.9%
• Hispanic: 11.6%
• Two or more races: 5.7%
• American Indian: 3.2%
• Asian: 1.4%
• Pacific Islander: 0.1%

Well, shucks; surely that means there’s a two thirds probability that the little dope peddler is a white boy—right? What kind of criminal network supplied him with a big sack of fentanyl to sell at school? Golly, I bet he’s a blond, blue-eyed hooligan raised by outlaw bikers in some godforsaken trailer park, who had the chutzpah to take advantage of the free lunch program while aspiring to be a junior Pablo Escobar, now isn’t he?

Whatever the case may be, it seems Horizon Middle School has seen better days. On an earlier report, an infographic shows the school rated at 89.7% for the state in 2007, with test scores around 81. Presently, the site rates it at 244th out of 519 Minnesota middle schools. Did the neighborhood decay for some unknown reason? Was it some Lovecraftian twist, like radioactive space rocks, or maybe the locals getting entirely too friendly with the Deep Ones of Y’ha‑nthlei who somehow made it into the Red River? Or perhaps, in the immortal words of William Jefferson Clinton, “There is a simple explanation for what has happened.”

Whodunit?

There have been some minor stories about this drug bust in the local news. As for widespread coverage, it’s pretty much been radio silence thus far—other than Townhall. Why is there so little attention in a case this shocking? One might well speculate!

No name has been given for the youth in question. News articles describe him simply as a “teen,” “student,” “suspect,” “juvenile,” etc. I’ve looked for pictures, but found nary a mugshot, perp walk photo, blurred image—nothing whatsoever depicting him. We all know what that usually means, of course.

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In this case, there are reasons beyond the usual ones. Minnesota does have legislature shielding the identity of youthful offenders. It’s understandable. The law recognizes that kids that age do a lot of stupid things out of immaturity which needn’t haunt them the rest of their lives. People grow out of that—usually. Generally, this is an enlightened measure. But in this instance, it covers over some significant details.

Consequentially, we know nothing of the young dope peddler’s background for certain. Assuredly there are locals who do know who this is, but so far, nobody’s been talking. The media hasn’t let anything slip. Since all other sources of information are closed off, then to approach the question everyone here is wondering by now, all that’s left are statistics and informed speculation. In other words, this leaves us only with profiling to guide us. With the truth deliberately kept under official wraps, you’ll just have to make your own scientific wild-ass guess about the ethnicity of this young dealer, and that of the gangsters who furnished the stash.

I certainly can guess who he isn’t. My take is that if he were white, the story would’ve made a spectacular splash in the national news: not just from coast to coast, but also the greater American imperium from Saipan to Guam to the US Virgin Islands to our proposed future colony of Orangeland in the frozen north. The mainstream media loves the racial inversion angle, even if they have to insert it with a hydraulic-powered narrative crowbar. Surely such a “man bites dog” story would’ve been irresistible. At the very least, the mainstream media would’ve hinted at his ancestry in a way that doesn’t break the legislative gag order.

In the final analysis, something just tells me that the kid’s name isn’t Lars or Hans. What if further information emerges, and it turns out that I’m wrong about that? If so, I hereby promise to put myself through a struggle session involving an hour of listening to klezmer music, or at least Jascha Heifetz’s squeaky violin.