Student Found with Marijuana at Portsmouth High Homecoming Dance

PORTSMOUTH, RI —A Portsmouth High School student is accused of marijuana possession, police said.

Paige Kirwin-Clair, an assistant principal, "detected a strong smell of marijuana" when Jack Page, 18, walked into the gym to attend Friday night's homecoming dance.

She searched Page's car in the school parking lot and told police she found a small bag "containing several buds of a leafy green substance thought to be marijuana," Detective Patrick J. O'Neill wrote in his report.

Kirwin-Clair and another assistant principal, Colleen Larson, notified Ofc. Pirri, who was working the detail at the school dance. He contacted O'Neill.

Page was charged with one count of possession of marijuana, 1 ounce or less, and released to his mother. It is his first offense, police said.