Jail me, Elmo? Police: Dad left pot in boy’s bag

[The Straight Story]

Jail me, Elmo? Police: Dad left pot in boy’s bag
He's accused of calling son's school to see if he could retrieve it


UNIONTOWN, Pa. - Police say a Pennsylvania father went to his son's elementary school to retrieve nearly four ounces of marijuana from the kindergartner's Elmo backpack.

State police say Ronald Washington, 33, called Menallen Elementary School in Uniontown on Thursday morning to ask if his son had arrived at school. Police say Washington told school officials he needed to fetch something from the boy's backpack, prompting school officials to search it.

Police say school officials called to say they had found pot in the bag. Troopers were waiting to arrest Washington when he arrived shortly before 9 a.m.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Washington. He was unable to post $100,000 and jailed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36286616/ns/us_news-weird_news/

[salvorhardin]

1. Umm, that's odd

Why would a father calling a school to tell them he needed to retrieve something from his son's backpack prompt the school to search it? That seems frighteningly draconian. Not that I'm endorsing his actions. I don't care that he had 4oz. of weed, but putting it in his son's backpack was just irresponsibly dumb.