Crime & Safety
Taft Student Arrested for Marijuana Possession, Daily Tribune Reports
A school resource officer, who was recently hired to work full time at the alternative high school, noticed a strong marijuana smell near the student, according to the article.
Ferndale Police arrested a student at on Tuesday who was carrying about a gram of marijuana, according to a story in the Daily Tribune.
The 19-year-old student is jailed on marijuana charges and is scheduled for a pre-exam conference May 10. According to the Daily Tribune article, police said the student smelled so strongly of pot that the center's school resource officer noticed and stopped him in a hallway.
“Our officer sniffed him out on his own,” Ferndale Police Lt. William Wilson told the Daily Tribune. “We didn’t need a drug dog."
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On March 12, Ferndale City Council approved a resolution to hire a school resource officer who would be assigned to Taft Education Center.
The district began discussing a possible officer following the . School resource officers perform three roles: law enforcement officer, law-related counselor and law-related education teacher. A school resource officer is already in place at .
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The total compensation of the position is about $105,000 each fiscal year. The and agreed on a 75 percent-25 percent cost split, with the school district paying 75 percent of the cost.
The Ferndale Board of Education .
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