WESTFIELD – A Westfield State university student has found that her “stupid joke” is going to cost her $100.
City police Sgt. Eric Hall reports that an anonymous person provided him with a screen shot of a Twitter account picture which shows two young women in front of the Westfield Police Department and one of the women pictured is seen to be holding what appears to be a marijuana pipe to her mouth and apparently smoking. A caption made a rude suggestion in reference to police.
Hall reports he sought assistance from Det. Brian Freeman who was able to find the Twitter post which included the picture and a second post which claimed the photo credit for the picture. Freeman was able to discover names associated with each post.
When Hall found that the young women did not have local addresses he checked with Westfield State University officials and discovered that both young women are freshmen at WSU.
Hall reports he went to the campus and spoke with the two women and identified a third young woman who had been pictured with the pipe.
That woman said that the picture was “a stupid joke” she had made while she and friends were walking back to campus from nearby student housing.
She told Hall that it was “a stupid thing to do” and said that she had not actually been smoking marijuana when the picture was created. She said that the pipe was not even hers and had been borrowed for the picture.
When Hall asked the woman if the pipe had been used previously the woman acknowledged that it had been used to smoke marijuana.
Surmising that there had been marijuana residue in the pipe when it was in her possession, Hall issued the woman a city ordinance violation citation for possession of marijuana.
The penalty for the non-criminal citation is a $100 fine.
