"Anyone wanna buy some math?"
Posted on 02/28/2007 3:23:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania Middle School principal is facing felony drug charges for allegedly selling crystal meth.
Authorities said 50-year-old John Acerra, Principal of Nitchmann Middle School in Bethlehem, was arrested in his office after allegedly selling methamphetamine to police informants three times in the past month.
Arrest papers state one of the alleged sales occurred in Acerra's school office.
Police said they began investigating Acerra in early February after an informant told them that the principal was using and distributing the drug.
On Thursday, February 22, police watched Acerra sell a small amount of meth to a customer in a store parking lot, according to court documents. Police stopped the buyer, who told officers he had been to Acerra's home 10 to 15 times over the past three months, officials said.
Police then arranged for an informant to buy $200 worth of meth from Acerra on Saturday in the parking lot of an Allentown drug store, according to court documents.
On Tuesday, police set up another $200 deal with Acerra and the informant, who wore a listening device as he conducted the transaction inside the principal's office, authorities said.
After the informant left the building, police entered Acerra's office and found him sitting at his desk with a bag of meth next to a glass tube with meth residue and burn marks on it. Also on the desk was the marked money the informant used to purchase the drug, court documents said.
Acerra is being held in Lehigh County prison on $200,000 bail.
Superintendent Joseph Lewis said a letter was sent to parents informing them of the incident and teachers have spoken to students.
"Anyone wanna buy some math?"
Meanwhile, a 7th grader is being held in the Lehigh County Juvenile Detention Facility on $400,000 bail for drawing a cartoon of a soldier holding a gun.
Well, not really, but I think you all get my point.
Important update http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5081007
According to the Morning Call newspaper, principal John Acerra was naked and watching gay porn inside his office at the time of his arrest.
The Nitschman Middle School principal has been charged with selling crystal meth to a police informant at least one time from inside the school.
Officers say, the 50-year-old suspect also sold the illegal drug to informants several other times off school grounds.
I am just speechless. Can it get any worse? Can you imagine what the parents of kids wwho went to that school must be thinking? What the he** is going on in schools these days?
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