Did any of your childhood/high school friends grow up to be criminals?

Yeah unfortunately one guy I went to fifth grade with ended being part of multiple murder.

I had it both ways

Some became criminals, and some became cops. I hung out with both but never went all in with the drug side which probably saved my life. Many did not peg me making it past 18 and the rest of that crowd is now either dead or messed up for life. One just recently died in jail after killing 3 people. Drugs totally f*ck*d up their life. Same with another one who died a year ago. Heroin OD but pretty sure they never did major jail time. They started with booze as a teenager and went through all the rest later on. Third one wound up so messed up they needed a caregiver by 40 and was smart when young but now operates around an IQ of 60 or 80. Very sad.

Yes. He did multiple jail stints for minor drug stuff. He died of an overdose at age 24.

None.

At one time, my wife had 4 former classmates on death row.

One of them chopped up his parents and a sibling when he was a senior, I think. He had played at my wife's house when they were a lot younger.

Had a couple sell drugs, but neither ever got caught.

I went to a fairly large suburban high school, so yes, I knew people who became criminals. Two of them are murderers.

The first was on my junior high basketball team. He discovered crack when he was about 15 (this was the 80's). Nobody really knew what happened to him until he ended up on the news a few years later for murdering two family members during a robbery.

The other was a guy I hung out with in high school. He stabbed a guy in a fight outside of a bar. I hadn't seen him in 15 years or more, so I can't exactly say that we were friends.

Yes.

One of my good friends just got caught running a scam in North Ms. He was buying defective appliances cheap and fixing them and reselling them. He was giving a 90 day warranty guarantee but signing the contract with a fake name.

After many complaints on Craigslist a federal agent went and bought a washer from him, and it happened to break and of course my friend didn't honor the warranty and he has to settle in court now.

Yes. One of the guys I grew up with was involved in a drive by shooting and was convicted of murder.

I wouldnt say childhood friend but one ex classmate (he didnt graduate) was arrested numerous times for gun,drug charges and made the headlines for attempted murder, evading and assaulting an officer.