Assistant principal admits planting marijuana in student's locker
Source: wwmt.com, 02/21/04

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February 21, 2004 - 9:45AM

SOUTH HAVEN (AP) - A west Michigan educator may face drug possession charges after police say he admitted to planting marijuana in a student's locker.

Pat Conroy has been placed on administrative leave as assistant principal at South Haven High School. Earlier this month, he told police he put the drugs in the locker last year because he suspected the student was a drug dealer, and wanted the boy expelled.

Conroy's plan failed because a drug-sniffing dog didn't find any marijuana during a school search. Police later searched Conroy's office and found suspected marijuana and assorted pills.

Conroy says he had confiscated those drugs from students, and was keeping them to use as evidence during expulsion hearings.

He says what he did was "stupid" and "unethical."

(Rolo Comentary: Is this what the DEA is resorting to in its "War on Marijuana"; Using teachers to frame kids? Very sad indeed...)