Man allegedly tries to buy urine at school
02-13-2010, 04:00 AM
LOS ANGELES-An 18-year-old Manhattan Beach man was arrested at Pacific Elementary School on Monday after reports surfaced that he had offered to pay a third-grader for his urine.
Kevin Manuel Duron was taken into custody after reappearing at the elementary school Monday, said Manhattan Beach Police Detective Sgt. Brian Brown.
Duron allegedly entered a boys' bathroom on the campus Friday and offered to pay one boy several dollars to urinate into a cup, Brown said.
When he failed to persuade him, police said, he apparently returned for a second try.
Brown said he was struck by the man's persistence: "I would not have anticipated that he would have gone back again."
Duron, a graduate of Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, might have been collecting the urine to use to pass a drug test, authorities said.
One of the students solicited late last week told a parent, who alerted school officials, who then notified police. When Duron returned to campus Monday, a school employee spotted him and alerted school authorities.
Although originally arrested on suspicion of annoying or molesting a child, the Los Angeles district attorney reduced the severity of the charges to two counts of failing to register with a school office before entering school grounds. He was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
"These days, nothing surprises me, but it was very unusual case," Brown said. "Soliciting (urine) at an elementary school is a new one to me."
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District said this had never happened before and that school officials followed protocol to notify authorities.
Kevin Manuel Duron was taken into custody after reappearing at the elementary school Monday, said Manhattan Beach Police Detective Sgt. Brian Brown.
Duron allegedly entered a boys' bathroom on the campus Friday and offered to pay one boy several dollars to urinate into a cup, Brown said.
When he failed to persuade him, police said, he apparently returned for a second try.
Brown said he was struck by the man's persistence: "I would not have anticipated that he would have gone back again."
Duron, a graduate of Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, might have been collecting the urine to use to pass a drug test, authorities said.
One of the students solicited late last week told a parent, who alerted school officials, who then notified police. When Duron returned to campus Monday, a school employee spotted him and alerted school authorities.
Although originally arrested on suspicion of annoying or molesting a child, the Los Angeles district attorney reduced the severity of the charges to two counts of failing to register with a school office before entering school grounds. He was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
"These days, nothing surprises me, but it was very unusual case," Brown said. "Soliciting (urine) at an elementary school is a new one to me."
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District said this had never happened before and that school officials followed protocol to notify authorities.
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