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Students nabbed for pot
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Posted on Mar 30 2001
Three Hopwood Junior High School students were nabbed by police this week for possession of controlled substances.
The juveniles, a group of 15-year-old Palauan, 12-year-old Chamorro and 12-year-old Filipino males, were arrested for allegations of “passing the bug” or channeling among themselves four joints of marijuana since Tuesday, March 27 inside Saipan’s lone junior high school campus.
According to police reports, the Palauan boy first took possession of the illegal substances during the first day when he passed it on to his Chamorro friend on Wednesday.
Come Thursday, the Chamorro boy handed the controlled substances to his Filipino schoolmate, who later on threw it to the trash can.
Police records note that a witness who noticed the Filipino student dump the substances into the garbage relayed what he saw to a Hopwood teacher, who in turn, confiscated the marijuana and reported the incident to the principal.
The Filipino student was summoned to the principal’s office, where he blew the whistle on the first two students who took possession of the drugs before him.
The three were all arrested for illegal possession of controlled substance. They were booked at the juvenile office for processing.
