Man offers to pay restitution

Friday, Feb. 8, 2002 | 10:14 a.m.

A Las Vegas man serving three years probation for putting a vomit-inducing drug into a water jug shared by a youth football team has offered to pay $2,250 to three of the players.

According to court documents filed Thursday in District Court, Jerome Breland is asking District Judge Michael Cherry to allow him to split $6,750 between the players.

Breland was sentenced to probation in April after pleading guilty to the gross misdemeanor charge of negligent disregard for the safety of others.

He was accused of putting Ipecac, a plant extract that induces vomiting, into a water jug during a Nevada Youth Football League team's practice session.

Eight children were treated at two local hospitals and released after they became ill after they drank from the jug.

The Nevada Youth Football League has teams for youths 7 to 15. Those who got sick were between 12 and 14.

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