Man charged after his THC gummies sicken 3 children at Plantation camp
Shelvin Marquise Fairman, 31, was arrested on three counts of child neglect after a girl brought his THC gummies to a Plantation summer camp at Mirror Lake Elementary and shared them, leaving three children ill and hospitalized. Police said the bag was field-tested positive for THC, and Fairman was booked into jail.
🇺🇸 Mirror Lake Elementary, Plantation, Broward County, Florida · Florida, United States
A girl accidentally brought a bag of THC gummies to a summer camp at a
Plantation school and shared them with friends, police said.[1]The camp was
held at Mirror Lake Elementary, according to the arrest report.[1]The girl
told police she found the bag in the fridge in her mother’s room and brought it
to the camp.[1]She said she ate a few during snack time and shared them with
friends without knowing they contained THC.[1]Police and fire rescue
responded after all three children became ill and had to be hospitalized.[1]The bag was found at the school and field tested positive for THC, the report
said.[1]
Investigators determined the bag belonged to Fairman, who left it in a location
easily accessible to the girl, the report said.[1]Shelvin Marquise Fairman,
31, was arrested on Thursday, 16 July 2026, on three counts of child neglect
without great bodily harm, an arrest report said.[1]Fairman was booked into
jail.[1]Attorney information wasn’t available.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Injured
3
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Edibles
Activity
Possession
Setting
School or campus
Charge
three counts of child neglect without great bodily harm
The report gives no date for the children's ingestion of the gummies; 16 July 2026 is the Thursday arrest date, inferred from the 20 July publication date.
No weight, count or THC content was published for the gummies, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
How the three children fared after they were hospitalized was not reported.
No plea, court date or later court outcome was reported.
The report does not say whether Fairman faced a cannabis charge in addition to the three child-neglect counts.
Fairman's relationship to the girl is not stated; the report says only that the bag belonged to him and that she found it in her mother's room.
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