“He insisted they did not belong to him....If they were stolen they DID NOT belong to him.”
Not in any of the accounts I’ve read.
He said they were given to him, and when he said he would not tell them by who, he was admitting that he actually knew who gave them to him.
Personally I call BS on the entire story. I believe the tool was his, and the jewelery had been stolen by him. My point is, why did the school just let the matter drop?
Maybe the school let it drop because no one reported missing jewelry.
My guess is an “illegal search”....But it certainly appears that this young man’s behavior was getting out of control one step at a time with very few consiquences.
Often being suspended from school is considered a reward rather than a punishment by the child. Only the parents see it differently. Since dad took him from his mother’s home and he was spending the suspension at dad’s girl friend’s house, it may have been an even bigger reward for Trey.