Police arrested a 17-year-old girl from Monte Vista High School on Halloween on a charge of possessing a brownie laced with marijuana, said Jimmy Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.
The arrest was made on campus around 11:15 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31, Lee said. The school resource officer was notified by the assistant principal that the girl had a marijuana brownie. He then interviewed the girl, confirming there was indeed marijuana inside the brownie, said Lee. After she was arrested, she was released to her parents.
“There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it was distributed to anyone and certainly to no children,” Lee said.
The incident reminded Lee of when a 17-year-old boy was arrested at Monte Vista in February on charges of giving a cookie containing marijuana to a 4-year-old boy in the child development class. The boy was also charged with carrying alcohol on school grounds and with child endangerment.
Lee said he did not know how school officials knew the teenage girl had marijuana in the brownie and could not comment if she had been suspended.
“We hope that people learn from this,” Lee said. “This is not the type of thing that you bring to any type of campus.” He also noted that marijuana is illegal.
-Jordan M. Doronila
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