The Region - News from Feb. 6, 1987

An 11-year-old Pasadena boy has been ordered removed from his home after a Juvenile Court commissioner determined he had sold $20 worth of rock cocaine to an undercover police officer last October. Commissioner Virginia Chernak ordered that the elementary school student be placed in a foster home or a government-run facility for a maximum of five years, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. “We are finding more and more kids 11, 12 and 13 selling cocaine,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Jodi Rafkin, who prosecuted the case. “Unfortunately, it’s not unusual.”