Eighth
grader
busted
By CARL E. HARTDEGEN
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD – An eighth grade boy at Westfield Middle School South will be charged with selling marijuana after a classmate admitted that she bought a $5 bag of pot from him in school.
School Resource Officer Paul Pellan reports that Peter Lurgio, a vice principal at the school, showed him a bag containing a small amount of marijuana which an eighth grade girl had surrendered to him.
Lurgio told Pellan that two students had told him that they had seen the girl take something they believed to be marijuana from an eighth grade boy at the end of a class.
The vice principal said that he had interviewed the girl and she told him that she had paid the boy five one dollar bills for the marijuana she surrendered.
Pellan reports the bag was found to contain four grams of marijuana.
The boy was then interviewed and the administrator told Pellan that he had surrendered three bags containing what he believed to be marijuana which the boy had secreted in a shoe. The boy, however, refused to speak with Lurgio.
The girl’s mother came to the school and the girl made a written statement about the incident.
Her mother was told that a city ordinance violation citation would be filed which will result in a $100 fine and the girl will be required to complete a drug awareness program administered by the Department of Youth Services.
The boy’s step father came to school and was advised that the boy will also be fined and he will also have to complete the drug awareness program. In addition, criminal complaints will be filed against the boy for distribution of a Class D drug and for a drug violation in a school zone.
Carl E. Hartdegen can be reached at [email protected]
