Teenagers selling illegal drugs.

It’s not an unfamiliar crime but it seems more teens are being caught peddling prescription drugs to classmates.

Just recently, four students at Bellevue East were arrested for selling prescription drugs stolen from their parents' medicine cabinet.

Two juveniles at Mercy High School were caught too and are accused of "intent to deliver."

The latest case began with a simple traffic violation.

Police also found evidence of an elaborate business, too.

The evidence room at LaVista police headquarters holds items seized in another case of alleged drug dealing.

But this one is more sophisticated than some and with suspects younger than most.

"He had little baggies going along with the prescriptions ready for distribution"

LaVista officer Shawn Dooling stopped a car making an illegal turn with three teenagers inside.

The oldest of them tied to various pills separated and ready for delivery.

"He simply said he would get them for a certain amount, double the price, and sell them to his school mates," says Dooling.

The 18-year-old carried an inventory of the pills probably prescribed for psychological issues like depression.

The list had prices for each type of drug to be sold illegally and how much money made so far.

The 18 year old suspect would not tell the arresting officer where he got the pills but investigators say they probably came from parents' bathrooms where unused narcotics and painkillers are often left for the taking.

"It may not be your teen it maybe your teen's friend who comes over and goes through your medicine cabinet"

Bob Elliott is a state patrol investigator.

“There's three cases in the metro area involving either accidental or intentional overdose deaths involving teenagers and prescription drugs," says Elliott.

A school administrator attending a conference nearby saw first hand another type of pill pushing that educators must learn about.

Kraig Lofquist says, "We need to constantly provide updated training to our staff and administrators about drug recognition expertise," says Kraig Lofquist, a school administrator.

The pills along with scales and more conventional drug paraphernalia will be evidence against a high school senior from Omaha caught running an illegal sales business that nobody wants to see as a project in school.