Drug-Sniffing Canines Locate Marijuana in Student's Car

[Stoner4Life]

School administrators invited police and a team of drug-sniffing dogs into Rockville High School Friday and the dogs detected no drugs inside the school.

One of the four police dogs did detect marijuana in a student's car in the school parking lot, and that student was arrested.

Friday's exercise was the first time school officials used a relatively new board of education policy to check the school for illegal substances.

"The board of education last spring passed a policy for the use of trained dogs to search on school property," Rockville High School Principal Brian Levesque said. Friday "was the first time we actually implemented that policy."

School officials alerted students and parents to the policy and made it clear that at some point, dogs would be brought into the school to search for contraband, Levesque said. Friday's search was unannounced.

"We were pleased with how this went," said Richard Paskiewicz, the interim superintendent of schools. "We have a good working relationship with [police] we will do this again."

The four dogs that searched the building came from the Vernon and Manchester police departments and the U.S. Customs Service, Vernon police Lt. Brian Smith said.

The student whose car was found to contain marijuana was identified as Darryl T. Cohen, a senior, who was charged with possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. He was released on bond.


NewsHawk: Stoner4Life - 420 Magazine
Source: Hartford Courant
Pubdate: Sat, 14 Oct 2006
Author: David Owens
Copyright: 2006 The Hartford Courant
Contact: letters@courant.com
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[danker]

yea, i knew this girl whose car got torn though because the dog "smelled drugs" and it turned out it was after cocopuffs that had gotton hot in tuberware in the sun.

 

[jboy158]

yeah they've used drug sniffing dogs at my school district since i can remember. even way back in middle school. i got my locker searched because the dog supposedly smelt something. turns out it was my alcohol based deodorant. but in highschool dogs would come about once a month and find mad people with shit in the lockers or in the cars.