Hooksett police responded to an alleged drug deal between students on a Hooksett school bus on Monday, March 16.

Police were advised of the incident by a parent whose child had sent a text message relating an exchange of pills between two students on the bus. The police pulled the bus to the side on Merrimack Street and questioned the involved students, who revealed the pills that had changed hands were a bag of glucose tablets, used to treat hypoglycemia for diabetics.

According to the report, the student who had accepted the bag of pills told police he thought it was candy.

After students were evacuated from the bus, a K-9 drug dog did an extensive search of the vehicle. No other substances were uncovered.

The Hooksett School Board praised Cawley Middle School administrators for quickly and appropriately responding to the alleged drug deal.

At a School Board meeting later that week, Cawley Middle School Principal Steve Harrises said the school system took swift action by immediately notifying parents of other students who were on the school bus as well as sending out a school-wide letter for all students to deliver to their guardians on Tuesday, March 17.