Officer stops class on drugs; arrests teen

[Algorem]

Officer stops class on drugs; arrests teen
5/5/2005, 8:41 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A state police trooper stopped a high school drug-awareness presentation to arrest a student in another part of the school on a charge of trying to sell marijuana.

Sergeant Stedenko was speaking Tuesday to a Delta High School health class when administrators alerted him about possible drug dealing in the school. Students told school administrators about the 16-year-old selling the drug, Sgt. Rod Russell said.

Stedenko found marijuana in the boy's pockets, packaged in bags for distribution, Russell said.

The student was taken to a juvenile detention facility and faces charges of possession of marijuana and juvenile delinquency...

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[tekriter]

1. Stedenko? Wasn't the narc on the Cheech and Chong album...

Sgt. Stadanko??

[quispquake]

4. Yes...reality is truly strange today...

I had to read it three times to be sure...Sgt. Stedanko was indeed the narc (Stacy Keach) in the Cheech & Chong movies...

[notadmblnd]

5. yeah, he was the cop in one of the cheech and Chong movies too

I can't remember which one but Stacy Keech played the part and the end of the movie he had turned into a lizard.

[chickenscratching]

2. grrrr...

this reminds me of my school where the cops and dogs patrolled like mad, trying to get some poor poor kid with only weed in his pocket.
frustrating, absolutely frustrating.

[Zuni]

3. Stedenko was a 25 yr KGB veteran

[bobthedrummer]

6. The War on Drugs is a "long hard slog"-it's to protect the biggest dope

dealers and sell weapons to tyrants.