LOS ANGELES—An 18-year-old
man was arrested at Pacific Elementary School on Monday after reports
surfaced that he had offered to pay a third-grader for his urine.
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
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
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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