Posted on 03/01/2014 4:54:36 AM PST by lwd
LANDIS — A Rowan County school bus driver remains in jail today after Landis Police say he allowed students to smoke marijuana on the bus. Police say it wasn’t the first time he allowed students to smoke on the bus.
Brian Davis Overcash, 30, was charged with four counts of misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The incident occurred Feb. 20 after Corriher-Lipe Middle School assistant Principal Matt Krome contacted authorities.
Krome told officers with the Landis Police Department that Overcash, who drove bus No. 162, told the assistant principal that several students were on the bus smoking marijuana after he’d completed his route.
According to Krome, all bus drivers are required to stop the bus and call 911 if they witness a crime occur. Overcash did not stop the bus and did he notify law enforcement, a statement said.
Overcash told investigators he saw the students smoking on the bus, but he said there was “no point” in stopping the bus and calling 911 because the students would deny it.
School Resource Officer Brandon Linn determined this was not the first instance of students smoking on Overcash’s bus.
Overcash told Linn that students had smoked marijuana on two or three other occasions. Police identified four students who had smoked the marijuana on the bus. Investigators reviewed the case with the Rowan County District Attorney’s Office and charged Overcash on Friday. He is being held in the Rowan County jail under a $1,000 secured bond.
Now, where's the anti-smoking Nazis on this issue?
and if he tried to stop them.. I am sure there would have been the same type of out cry.
I feel bad for the bus driver. He sat in jail overnight and may still be in there. No doubt all the ‘students’ would have to do is ditch the weed and then deny it.
The incident occurred Feb. 20 after Corriher-Lipe Middle School assistant Principal Matt Krome contacted authorities.
The assistant Principal (Do I capitalize, or not? I know, I'll do both!) and the authorities all sat around and watched the "incident"?
... told the assistant principal that several students were on the bus smoking marijuana after he’d completed his route.
If he'd completed his route, why were students still on the bus? How did the stoned students get home?
"I ain't gots no weed, Mofo! Dat Cracka crazy, man"
Wait...pot is not legal in NC, I thought only kids in states where it is legal have easy access to pot.
The truth might be, it is just as easy or easier for kids to get pot in NC, as it is in CO or WA, and most likely cheaper too.
Just saying!
I agree: "incident" should be "charges".
The Salisbury post was recently sold and a few of the writers have left, including one of the other 'crime' reporters so I'm sure Ms. Potts has been churning out articles (the 'criminal' business is aboomin' around here!).
Standards have declined.
There’s no way I’d ever be a school bus driver. We put our drivers through hell on every bus I rode growing up. Having to be responsible for the lives (and actions) of all those kids. The risk and abuse is not worth the reward.
The driver was placed in a no win situation. No doubt.
Overcash told investigators he saw the students smoking on the bus, but he said there was “no point” in stopping the bus and calling 911 because the students would deny it.
He so right better to play ignorant in today’s world.
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