An 18-year-old Manhattan Beach man was arrested at Pacific Elementary School on Monday after reports surfaced Friday that he had offered to pay a third-grader for his urine.<\/p>\n
Kevin Manuel Duron was taken into custody after reappearing at the elementary school Monday, said Manhattan Beach Police Det. Sgt. Brian Brown.<\/p>\n
Duron allegedly entered a boys bathroom on the campus and offered to pay one boy several dollars to urinate into a cup, Brown said.<\/p>\n
When he failed to persuade him, police said, he apparently returned for a second try.<\/p>\n
Brown said he was struck by the Mira Costa High School graduate’s persistence: "I would not have anticipated that he would have gone back again." <\/p>\n
Duron might have been collecting the urine to use to pass a drug test, authorities said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 in a Torrance courthouse Wednesday.<\/p>\n
"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."<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District said this had never happened before and that school officials followed protocol to notify authorities.<\/p>\n
— Amina Khan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old Manhattan Beach man was arrested at Pacific Elementary School on Monday after reports surfaced Friday 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 Det. Sgt. Brian Brown. Duron allegedly entered a boys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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