24 California high school students were arrested for reportedly selling a slew of hard drugs to various students in Riverside County.
A total of 23 juvenile students and two adult students were taken into police custody on narcotics related charges, ABC's local station in the Inland Empire reported. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department's Special Investigations Bureau finalized an undercover sting on Thursday that led to the arrests.
The alleged drug dealers were taken to Juvenile Hall, while the two adults were sent to Southwest Detention Center.
The two dozen students were allegedly selling drugs at Perris High School and Paloma Valley High School.
The two students who were booked as adults have been identified as 18-year-old Serina Ramirez and Erick De La Cruz, 19. They've been accused of selling narcotics at Perris Union High School.
The school's district superintendent Jonathan Greenburg wrote an email to parents following the arrests.
"I want the students to know we have ways to deter them from this," Greenburg said. "It is our obligation to do our best to keep our campuses clean."
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department reported in a statement concerning the arrests that they'd seized a wide breadth of narcotics from the alleged dealers.
Over the course of the investigation, law enforcement officials found marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, hashish, a number of prescription pills and methamphetamines.
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