US police in Massachusetts detained the father of a child who came to elementary school with a bag of cocaine, and told classmates he made him feel "like Spiderman."

The incident took place at Lawrence Elementary School, where the child showed the cocaine to the teacher, saying that he was putting it in his mouth, and "making him feel like a Spiderman."

Police called an ambulance and took the boy to hospital as a precaution, but the hospital administration said it did not believe the boy had taken cocaine.

On the other side, the police went to the boy's house, where he found his father, Benny Garcia, asleep with 38 sacks

Of cocaine, 70 bags of heroin at home.