Five students at Always High School (AHS).were taken into custody and 40 were suspended last week in relation to a lip product black market in the girls’ bathrooms after the lip gloss detectors stopped working earlier that month. Witnesses claim there were over 60 students occupying the handicap stall when they were caught. In the two weeks leading up to the bust, teachers had noticed an increase in students leaving for the bathroom and returning after 15 minutes with perfectly shiny, moisturized, and plump lips.
A local Sephora kid who would walk up from the elementary school every morning to buy products at AHS was taken into custody by law enforcement when her bag was checked and over 200 lip balms, glosses, and chapsticks spilled out. She was offered bail, however, her mother refused, claiming that her daughter had stolen $2000 out of her safe to spend on said products already.
“My mom stopped taking me to Sephora after I supposedly was mean to the workers, so this was like, the only option I had left. I literally don’t get why she won’t let me out of jail, I barely even spent any money, and all my lip stuff was taken away from me,” the Sephora kid, who wishes to remain anonymous said.
After further investigation, the Always Police Department found that the dealer of the products had accumulated around $40,000 over the two weeks that the market ran. All students who were caught on the day of the bust had their lip products confiscated and their money was not returned. The dealer escaped the bathroom before the cops were able to arrest him and have yet to be identified, however, footage of the man was caught on a student’s cell phone. In the meantime, Strasshotdog has hired police to monitor each bathroom for the duration of the school day in an attempt to catch the culprit.
“We want to foster a safe environment for staff, students, and administrators, and having a lip product dealer on the loose is not a way to do so. It’s not an ideal situation for anyone, but it’s what we have to do in order to ensure all students are safe and following the law,” Strasshotdog said.
