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Today In Irony: High School Drug Prevention Counselor Indicted On Drug Charges (Seattle)
The Seattle Weekly ^
| December 11,2009
| Vernal Coleman
Posted on 12/11/2009 5:54:21 PM PST by Stoat
Today In Irony: Robert Henry Smith, Rainier Beach High School Drug Prevention Counselor, Indicted On Drug Charges
Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 4:47PM
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Staff Photo: Rainier Beach High School |
Robert Smith |
If you're hiring a person to ward the kids off getting involved with drugs, you hire a guy who has previously been prosecuted on federal drug charges. Of course, that logic falls apart when the person you've hired goes from preventing back to pushing.
Enter Robert Henry Smith, the Rainier Beach High School drug and alcohol prevention counselor who was indicted by the U.S. attorney today for conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone.
As previously reported, Oxycodone has become quite popular in King County, a fact not gone unnoticed by Smith, apparently.
According to court documents, authorities began investigating Smith after they were approached by a confidential informant who claimed that Smith and alleged co-conspirator Adrian Demetrius Johnson were dealing Oxycontin and Percoset (both derivatives of Oxycodone).
A joint task force of Seattle police and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration later witnessed Smith take part in four drug buys, one of which took place while he was still on the clock, and just two blocks away from Rainier Beach High.
Smith did not draw any of his students into the alleged conspiracy, nor did he sell to them, say prosecutors. But school authorities have still seen fit to put him on paid leave. Both he and Johnson will remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing to be held next week. If found guilty, they could both receive up to 20 years in prison.
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; napl; roberthenrysmith; seattle; washington; washingtonstate
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Seattle P.I:
Rainier Beach High counselor indicted on drug charges
Smith is on paid administrative leave from the school. He has worked in the district since 1992 and has been a drug and alcohol specialist in the district since 1998. It was not immediately clear how long he has been at Rainier Beach.
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posted on
12/11/2009 5:54:22 PM PST
by
Stoat
To: sionnsar; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
Well, I don't see what the big deal is....it seems that it's okay to appoint a full-fledged pervert to the position of National Safe Schools 'czar', so the idea of having a drug dealer as a high school anti-drug counselor seems perfectly normal. Those closed-minded, evil Republicans! Always making a big deal out of nothing!
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posted on
12/11/2009 5:54:57 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
I guess this is what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum.
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posted on
12/11/2009 5:55:48 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Proud to be an American-American.)
To: Stoat
If ALL drugs were legalized...this wouldn’t have happened./s
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posted on
12/11/2009 6:03:50 PM PST
by
Dallas59
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:14:50 PM PST
by
sionnsar
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To: Dallas59
Yea and if murder was legalized there would be no murderers.
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posted on
12/11/2009 7:14:54 PM PST
by
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To: sionnsar
Wow, that’s really unbelievable.
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posted on
12/11/2009 9:23:09 PM PST
by
Gemsbok
(Dead men tell no tales!)
To: Stoat; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Yessir, that fox is doing a mighty fine job of guarding the henhouse, you betcha.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:19:13 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(Jew, conservative, and proud supporter of Israel.)
To: Slings and Arrows
They should send him to Hangem High School.
Three cheers for Hangem High.
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posted on
12/12/2009 4:57:51 AM PST
by
TheOldLady
(No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
To: Stoat
"He has worked in the district since 1992 and has been a drug and alcohol specialist in the district since 1998."Literally.
LOL!!!!
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posted on
12/12/2009 5:02:19 AM PST
by
Landru
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To: TheOldLady
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12/12/2009 5:37:49 AM PST
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12/12/2009 9:45:44 AM PST
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