Today In Irony: High School Drug Prevention Counselor Indicted On Drug Charges (Seattle)

The Seattle Weekly ^ | December 11,2009 | Vernal Coleman

[Stoat]

Today In Irony: Robert Henry Smith, Rainier Beach High School Drug Prevention Counselor, Indicted On Drug Charges

By Vernal Coleman in Crime & Punishment

Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 4:47PM

 

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.

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Also:

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.

[Stoat]

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!

 

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess this is what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum.

[Dallas59]

If ALL drugs were legalized...this wouldn’t have happened./s

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[guitarplayer1953]

Yea and if murder was legalized there would be no murderers.

[Gemsbok]

Wow, that’s really unbelievable.

[Slings and Arrows]

Yessir, that fox is doing a mighty fine job of guarding the henhouse, you betcha.

[TheOldLady]

They should send him to Hangem High School.

Three cheers for Hangem High.

[Landru]

"He has worked in the district since 1992 and has been a drug and alcohol specialist in the district since 1998."

Literally.

LOL!!!!

[Slings and Arrows]

Hurrah!

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Sheesh.