School officials asked student to buy pot as part of sting, authorities say

Three administrators at Porter Middle School in Granada Hills have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student, according to authorities.

Los Angeles Police Department officers are investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrators who orchestrated and knew of the sting, which occurred late last week, according to the Michel Moore, a Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief.

The student who bought the alleged drugs is not under investigation, he said. LAPD investigators discovered the administrators' involvement when the school district police reported the incident Monday, according to Moore.

The three school district employees were reassigned shortly after the sting. "We wouldn't expect an administrator to act this way with a student," Moore said.

-- Jason Song

Comments

[Patricia]

The drug war behaves a lot like an addict. Violence, dishonesty, using children to do their dirty work. Why can't we have a drug policy that is honest, open and nonviolent?

We don't deal with alcohol this way. Alcoholics do exist, but we don't get all sneaky and deceitful and violent in order to control alcohol.

We provide places for alcoholics to get sober.

We license stores to sell alcohol, but we fine them heavily or take away their licenses entirely if they sell to minors.

That's why it's harder for a teenager to buy beer than to buy marijuana.

You cannot control what you ban. Sounds counter-intuitive, but it's true.

[paula]

I'm not surprised that administrators originated this plan. Really, how many administrators does it take to be this dumb. Believe me, there are many more.

[LVE]

If it turns out these "administrators" actually engaged in this sort of conduct, they should be gone; not just reassigned.

[Kristiana]

I am currently a student at Porter Middle School. There was always talk among the students about how the administration was "messed up", but I never thought that it would be this bad. If this is true it would truly ruin Porter's reputation, and Porter had a very good reputation when I was in elementary and my mom's friends were recommending it.

[Don]

I am currently in Porter Middle School and in the 7th grade. I did sometimes critize the staff and how they were way too strict and kind of wierd. I never, NEVER expected these people to do this.

[Leo]

The administrators were awful, i currently go there. But now that there gone our teachers are taking on there role of enforcing rules. The number of adults monitoring us has at least doubled! It is a bitter sweet time for us.

[Royale]

I went to porter last year and these administrators were stupid and very idiotic to send a boy to buy marijuana for them.

[michael bisson]

who is this jason song ?
as long as he writes articles that are 500 CHARACTERS......
as compared to 500 WORDS.....
we'll never know.
oh and your reporting sucks........
whats the point!
wheres the story?
your a mouth piece for someone else !
when you get your own voice........
call me!

[Concerned]

When I read this story, the child endangerment that sticks out the most to me is the child neglect on the parents' behalf. How is it that a child is able to leave home with drugs to sell at school. How do his parents not know that he is in possession of drugs. If parents did their jobs to begin with, then the school wouldn't be in a position to have to catch students selling and buying drugs. It's ridiculous that little children are involved in drug trading, and it's the school professionals who get persecuted for stopping them. So, the story is that the kid who was buying drugs was endangered? What about the rest of the student body that the administrators were trying to protect by catching a drug dealer.

[Suzanne]

ROMANS 14:13
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.”

[simi]

I am currently a 7th grader at porter middle school, i never thought this school would do this. i knew the administrators but WOW I liked to boast about having such a good reputation school but that went down the drain. i hope our administarators get demoted and we won't have uniforms anymore. Don't ask a kid to buy drugs!!!!
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[griselda]

I was a student at Porter MS now known as "Pot"-ter, and graduated in 2007 on the honor roll. In sixth grade, i felt that i was safe at that school because there were rarely any fights and everyone loved our administrators. In 7th grade, they changed the dean and the principal. That year was horrendous. In my class these girls brought alcohol to school, and one was so drunk during PE that she had to be carried. They went to the dean's office and just got suspended. I thought, 'Shouldn't they be calling the police since it is illegal for a minor to consume alcohol on school premisis?" Of course, the dean must have thought that it wasn't necessary to notify the police because she had it "under control."

My sister is a current student at Porter and says that the dean makes a big deal about the dress code, yet she doesn't call the police when there is a real emergency.I believe her. So do her friends; just ask Simi.

Before, i was proud of the middle school i went to. It was a California distinguished school and the advanced classes helped me start highschool on the right foot. Now that i see my middle school on the news and on newspapers, i feel ashamed that even some students would sell weed at that school. =[

[worg]

These administrators should be FIRED IMMEDIATELY, then prosecuted criminally for endangerment of a child.

Let them be hung on the very zero tolerance laws they've perpetuated.

[Gloria]

I go to Porter, and before this crazy stuff, we had access to some of the best weed in the cuntry, now what are we goin to do...maybe start drinking jack and coke again..oh well, at least it is legal to drink.

[Jeff]

From the posts, it looks as though they need to ignore the drug problem and worry more about grammar and spelling.

[PJ]

"we don't get all sneaky and deceitful and violent in order to control alcohol"

Sure we do. If you are running an illegal distilling operation, don't think the ATF won't go undercover or come to your house with SWAT to take you down.

[BladeMcCool]

The inflated profits to be had by selling banned flowers are very enticing. Its difficult to convince a kid who knows he can make a ton of money selling dried flowers that a paper route is more worthwhile. The flowers are only profitable because of the prohibition. Repeal it and this "problem" goes away.

[Urban Derelict]

"we don't get all sneaky and deceitful and violent in order to control alcohol"

Sure we do. If you are running an illegal distilling operation, don't think the ATF won't go undercover or come to your house with SWAT to take you down.

Posted by: PJ

PJ: how many alcoholics do you know that run illegal distilleries? That's what I thought.

It's not a war on (some) drugs (the two most fatal drugs are legal: alcohol and tobacco) it's a war on minorities. Read tinyurl.com/1mn

It's to keep minorities down. Asians smoked opium so opium was outlawed. Mexicans and later African Americans smoked cannabis, so cannabis was outlawed.

We learned in grade school what prohibition does: it CAUSES CRIME, it CAUSES CORRUPTION WITHIN THE POLICE.

So why do we think cannabis prohibition would be any different than alcohol prohibition?