Austintown pupils suspended

AUSTINTOWN — Three pupils at Austintown Middle School were suspended after a drug made one girl sick, a township police report says.

The eighth-grader got sick in a class Thursday morning and was sent to the school nurse, the report says.

She said she’d taken half a “methodose” pill, the report said.

The girl said a friend, another eighth-grade girl, bought the pill from an eighth-grade boy for $5. The friend admitted having other pills as well, the report said.

The boy admitted to AMS Principal Dan Bokesch that he took the pills from a relative’s prescription bottle, the report says. The relative has prescriptions for methadone and OxyContin, the report says.

The girls are suspended for five days and the boy for 10 days, the report says.

Also on Thursday, an assistant principal from Frank Ohl Intermediate School turned over a note about a hit list to AMS, a police report says.

The note, given to the administrator by a fourth-grader, indicates there is a seventh-grader writing a list of people he wants to kill, the report says. The list contained four names. Two were identified as AMS pupils, and their families were contacted, the report says. The other two were not identified.