Posted on 02/25/2004 7:37:38 AM PST by Born Conservative
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Here's a bit of advice for high school administrators everywhere: If a drug-sniffing police dog somehow misses the pot you planted in a troublemaker's locker, just let it go. Patrick Conroy, however, felt the need to tell Michigan cops about his harebrained attempt to frame a student he believed was selling drugs at L.C. Mohr High School. Conroy, who resigned his assistant principal's post Friday when the Herald-Palladium reported on his scheme, last month laughingly told a K-9 cop about planting the pot, according to the below South Haven Police Department reports.
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Ahhhhh, here it is: Article 27B of the school procedures reads: "Thou shalt not acquire illegal drugs and plant them on a student for purposes of entrapment, so as to give the student a criminal record and unethically have that student removed from school."
The principal will be on leave until he memorizes Article 27B, and then he can come back and all will be forgiven. Just a procedural problem. Nothing more.
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