court to review his case. huguely is serving 23 years in prison. books for students in a school district that's facing shortages, but that did not stop someone from dumping thousands of books that had been removed from a baltimore city school
that was scheduled to close. 11 news reporter lowell melser joins us. lowell, is the school district defending its dumping decision? well, the funny thing is, it's hard to get any information in the -- out of the school district in the first place.
we know the following. heritage high school closed its doors. the school principal ordered all the books copyrighted by 1999 to be recycled. according to some city councilmembers, old and new books were thrown out, despite
their efforts to try and save them. i didn't know shakespeare got old. i didn't know algebra changes. for this owner of terra cafe, it was the shock of a lifetime. he and his friend found that thousands of the textbooks,
everything from the classics to math and science textbooks were being thrown out. our intentions with the books were to recycle the books into the communities. when they were there, they were told no. they noticed thousands of what
looks like new books in a recycle and trash dumpster. we were put out of the school, questioned who we were and what were our intentions. they reached out to councilmembers, including carl stokes, who was outraged. she's books, first of all,
are in good shape. second of all, they're not outdated. stokes says he witnessed a garbage truck take away all of the books. they had any idea that the books railroad were in the dumpster.
a disgruntled employee dumped all the new books to make the principal and the system look bad. it would be bad physically for one person to discard that many books. no way, says stokes. we reached out to school
officials fer officials who would only community through e-mail. they would not tell us where the books are now and why they wouldn't let dixon and childs take the books in the first place. we understand from teachers in
the scoorl that there are still plenty of books inside the school that could be saved and not thrown out. chairman stokes says he's going to try to save the books and get them in the right hands.
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