Text Message Error Leads To Pot Bust

Ky. Teacher Sent Text Messages To Trooper Instead Of Dealer, Police Say

(AP)  A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to a state trooper instead of a dealer, police said.

Trooper Trevor Pervine was at dinner with his wife and parents celebrating a birthday when his phone started buzzing with messages about a marijuana purchase.

At first, Pervine thought the messages were from friends playing a joke, Kentucky State Police spokesman Barry Meadows said. But a couple of phone calls put that idea to rest, and Pervine responded to set up a meeting, Meadows said.

Authorities say Ann Greenfield, 34, arrived at the meeting point and found Pervine and other law enforcement officers waiting for her.

"She learned her lesson: Program your dealers into your phone," Meadows said.

Greenfield, a teacher at Murray Middle School, was charged with conspiracy to traffic in controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Meadows said.

She was suspended with pay pending results of an investigation, the Murray Independent School District said in a statement posted Friday on the district's Web site. A message seeking comment left at a listing for an Ann Greenfield in Murray, Ky. was not returned.

[scott4261]

That really is too bad. Marijuana should be legal for those over 21 anyway. Prohibiton never worked for alcohol and it is never going to work with pot. Some communities don't even actively bust someone with less than one ounce. And let's be real here: the one of many reasons the drug war has failed, especially with marijuana, is that too many well connected people smoke it. Prohibition is not working and will not work.

Busting for marijuana possession is really a waste of time and energy. It is a distraction at the least and takes the focus off of more dangerous problems. We have a meth epidemic that is out of control and most law enforcement are and should be focusing on that. And one could argue all day about how "pot is a gateway drug...." or whatever. I don't buy into that. And if pot were legal, we could tax it and bring down the burden of overall taxes for the general population. Certainly we could, at the very least, reduce out budget deficit. Legalize marijuana.

[ladyephesus1]

Well at least we know she is not a Math Teacher..hahahaha

[revdanbar]

Thank God we have taken another dangerous criminal off the street. Marijuana is the most powerful substance known to man. It is the only herb that can cause insanity in people who do not use it. Now that this drug fiend is off the streets we can rest easy, sit back, smoke a cigarette and sip a cool vodka martini secure in the knowledge that our justice system is working. The valium can stay in the medicine cabinet today. But let us not forget to thank God for sending brave men and women to protect us from the first gift he ever bestowed upon us. "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth". Genesis 1:29
Part two to follow

[revdanbar]

Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans per year. Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States after tobacco use which is estimated to kill 350,000 Americans a year. It is not a question of whether we should have pot or not. Pot is here. Millions of Americans smoke it. I have smoked with lawyers, including a district attorney, policemen including the town sheriff, and the spouse of a state congressman. It is a question of should we criminalize behavior that is less harmful than many permitted behaviors. Can we serve cocktails at state dinners and pay farmers to grow tobacco while busting pot smokers. If our government demands that our children must pledge allegiance to a flag that promises %u201Cliberty and justice for all%u201D should it not have to provide liberty and justice for all. These are my thoughts, what are yours?

[victoriarum]

And the purpose of smoking pot is for what use; to boost your own self-esteem up a notch because a natural high isn't good enough.

It's a blessing to hear of an officer who has the smarts that is working with the law instead of against it, not wearing his/her badge part-time. They use their intelligence to do the ethical thing instead of dismissing it as a prank.

"Everyone that sins breaks the laws, in fact sin is lawless.%u201D 1 John 3:4

God Bless

[btans1]

Vicky-

what does the bible have to do with this?

smoking pot is not a sin...it may be illegal in this country, but then again so is entrapment

[bildooreilly]

Educate yourself about "Jury Nullification" 60% of alcohol cases during prohibition were found in favor of the obviously guilty because the juries disagreed with the law itself. Go do 10 minutes of research on this at wikipedia etc, courts are not required to and will not give you this information. Make sure you always volunteer for jury duty when called upon but never mention anything about your knowledge of jury nullification or they won't let you on the jury.

[willyn3]

What a waste of valuable police time and taxpayer money. It's about time we all says NO! to the "Just Say No" scammers. Pot should be as legal as alcohol and you should go to jail for selling cigarettes and/or ripping off the taxpayer with our insane Drug War..

[oleander8]

It's absurd that marijuana illegal. Alcohol is a million times more dangerous and destructive.

[bobgee_1999]

It was not entrapment; the teacher "approached" the cop, whether by accident or not. Whether it makes sense or not, pot is illegal. As for being a "gateway drug," that is purely stupid. One could as easily say that about cigarettes or booze. The comment by VictoriaRum is absolutely hillarious! An obviously religious person deriding ANYTHING because it serves "to boost your own self-esteem up a notch because a natural high isn't good enough" is utter hypocrisy; sounds like one is describing the farsical belief in the Supreme Daddy to me. Incidentally I don't smoke pot; dopers bore me.

[gabulldog66]

Some of these comments are interesting.

In the first place, she did break a law. Why don't some people expect her to accept the consequences of her actions?

It is not unreasonable to expect a sworn law officer to enforce the law. He is not being vindictive, simply doing the job the taxpayers expect him to do.

If marajuana should be legal, then why don't the majority of the citizens demand it. It's real easy to sit at your computer and complain. It's quite another to stand up for your belief and work for change. That is if you can stand up.

[phil-in-fin]

"It's absurd that marijuana illegal. Alcohol is a million times more dangerous and destructive."
Posted by oleander8

And how do you know that?

This woman is a criminal.

"I have smoked with lawyers, including a district attorney, policemen including the town sheriff, and the spouse of a state congressman."
Posted by revdanbar

Would love to be around the day you all get busted by a police officer with integrity.

You had better hope that none of your "friends" suddenly gets the urge to black-mail.

[phil-in-fin]

"And if pot were legal, we could tax it and bring down the burden of overall taxes for the general population. Certainly we could, at the very least, reduce out budget deficit. Legalize marijuana."
Posted by scott4261

I m wit u pal.

'N well were at it, less legulize coke.

Sur mak allotta $$ 4 da gov't, and brng that 'ol det ever1 is talkin' aboat.

[lily_ayanami]

this is an example of why smoking pot is bad for you. it addles your brains such that you send your pot requests to law enforcement.

[scott4261]

I m wit u pal.

'N well were at it, less legulize coke.

Sur mak allotta $$ 4 da gov't, and brng that 'ol det ever1 is talkin' aboat.
Posted by phil-in-Fin at 03:24 PM
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Whatever, man.

[Scar_Face2]

Good going Trooper Trevor Pervine we need to thank him that this teacher was stoped before she might have sold to the kids in her school. I thank you are over looking the job of the Trooper we would ask no less of him then to do what he did. I hope he was given a big thank you by the school and the law informent department he works for.

[xxyoxx]

You know you can go out get drunk in a couple of hours and kill a whole family while driving home. and thats okay cause drinking is legal. but smoke pot and then what. Get the munchies. Just like cigaretts. Can't smoke most places cause maybe 10-20 years from now someone might die from second hand smoke. But go ahead and drink beer. Every time you turn there are ads for beer and thats ok. What did this lady do so wrong, She should of just as one of the kids in the school cause 7 out of 10 probably have pot on them.

[bildooreilly]

Jury nullification occurs where a jury, apparently ignoring the letter of the law and the instructions by the court, and taking into account all of the evidence presented, renders a verdict in contradiction to the law. Although a jury's refusal relates only to the particular case before it, juries are reluctant to pass a verdict contrary to law. Jury nullification may signal an unwillingness by the members of the jury to accept the law and may have far reaching implications. In a case of jury nullification, the jury sometimes bases its verdict on the jury members' view about the validity of the law itself, a consequence of recognising a right to trial by one's peers.[1]

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

%u2014Thomas Jefferson, 1789 letter to Thomas Paine

During Prohibition, juries often nullified alcohol control laws,[7] possibly as often as 60% of the time.[8]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

[dallison7]

"She learned her lesson: Program your dealers into your phone," Meadows said.


MAAAAN, I'M GONNA REMEMBER THAT MAN!

[scott4261]

I don't even know phone #s anymore. What's up with that?

[meswin]

Looks like Phil-in-fin has been snorting a little too much of that coke he wants legalized. What a waster!! Go back to grammer school loser, learn how to spell. And incidentally, marijuana is still illegal, no matter who wants it legalized, and this person was in a position of trust as a school teacher. But I'm sure all you pot-heads wouldn't mind if your 9 year old middle-schooler was toking it up with his teacher, just as I'm sure you supply your legal alcohol to your 15 year olds. Marijuana is still a drug and it is illegal and until it is made legal, if ever, that school teacher should be suspended without pay until an investigation is complete.

[scott4261]

Marijuana prohibition is not working and will not work. Just as prohibition did not work with alcohol. And just as with alcohol, we might as well tax it and get rid of the black market.

[kinich74]

Errr...
Middles school students (6th/7th to 8th/9th, depending on your state) are usually 11/12-15/16, Children 11 or younger usually are in Elementary schools save some exceptions such as extremely intelligent children, and knowadays gifted children are not advanced, their put in a side program with kids their age in which they can get some sort of credit, and highly intellegent children are usually sent if possible to special schools for students with very high IQs (speaking here already of little Einsteins), some schools, mostly in the Private sector knowadays, though a few Magnet or well-to do public ones may do, may have a few ten year olds at 7th grade in rare ocassions, but a 9 year old would actually be in Elementary school.
As for the teacher using an intoxicating substance, in the Netherlands they are legal, but some of the more stringent schools are still allowed to make "decency rules": if you want a "free" life buy the legal pot, if you want to be a respectable teacher, just buy a cup of coffe, if you don't like it quit and find another job.
A teacher who works with preteens and young teens has no business in private or public using such a substance. It will send the wrong message. Teachers are supposed to be an example by the way they live, not just a hand writting on a blackboard.

[meswin]

Seems like quite a waste of a post to explain how 9 year olds are not in middle school they are elementary school. When I was 9 I was in 5th grade, and in the school I was in it was considered middle school, since we went to school with 4th through 8th grades. This article isn't about whether or not she taught 9 year olds or 19 year olds. It's about a teacher who was around young kids, trying to buy illegal drugs. This is not the Netherlands, this is the United States, and what she did was wrong. I wouldn't want her teaching my 9---um EXCUSE ME, 12--- year old.

[scott4261]

'ere, take it!.......................................{exhale}....{cough!, cough!, cough!}

[alimech]

I sure hope that teacher doesn't have cancer, MS, whatever...and uses the pot for pain/nausea relief.

But the eleven states where medical marijuana is legal still have to fight the Feds.

[mo005]

Man some of you people sound like the old broken record dad had when I was a kid. I have smoked pot since I was a 9 year old kid. I have never went into mcDonalds and shot the place up, I have never been arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road. I can honestly say I have never been in a fight or arguement because I was stoned. So you need to get over it. Pot is here to stay, and we will prevail in its getting legal. We just have to wait for the rest of you old drunk farts to pass on so we can legalize it.. And as far as that teacher goes. I'd have to be stoned to try and teach the spoiled little brats growing up now days.

[scott4261]

You may not have shot up McDonald's, but I'll bet you sure as hell super-sized your order!

[meswin]

I'm not disputing that pot is here to stay, and I'm not saying that maybe someday it should and will be made legal. However the fact remains that pot is illegal today, no matter how many of you preach at the "goods" of smoking pot and that you've never "shot up McDonalds" or "been arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road". That teacher broke the law and should be punished accordingly. Our teachers are role models for our young kids, and she is setting a bad example by using an illegal drug. Now when the day comes that pot is not illegal, maybe I'll change my stance, but she is in violation of the law.

[mo005]

ssssshhhhhh dont tell any one but I got two quarter pounders.

[mo005]

meswin: I will give you that one. But, she probably didnt mean for anyone to know she was going to be useing it except for herself. If she was going to smoke it with kids then yes that is a no no, and she should be busted for that. As far as I see it right now she is only guilty of being to stupid to get the right phone number on her phone.

[meswin]

Yes I agree, she was pretty dumb to send the message to the wrong phone number. And how ironic that it was a state trooper's phone. Maybe she was smoking something other then pot.

[michellem99-2009]

She teaches children in school and trying buy grass/pot/weed. She should not be a teacher as she is sending the wrong message to the young kids. Some teachers never grow up.Is grass more inportant than teaching her class.I think not. There are good teachers who do the right thing.

[tucson23]

There's noting wrong with smoking a little grass, so all of you get off your high horses.

[gunownerdan]

To fight crime and violence,
COPS SAY LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!
http://www.leap.cc
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

[newton221]

oooopppps!!!! At least it wasnt Meth.

[gramto7]

You may not have shot up McDonald's, but I'll bet you sure as hell super-sized your order!
Posted by scott4261

Good one!! And the reply:

ssssshhhhhh dont tell any one but I got two quarter pounders.
Posted by mo005

Is another!!

[gramto7]

You may not have shot up McDonald's, but I'll bet you sure as hell super-sized your order!
Posted by scott4261

Good one!! And the reply:

ssssshhhhhh dont tell any one but I got two quarter pounders.
Posted by mo005

Is another!!

[gramto7]

Sorry about double posing.

[gramto7]

meswin wrote:
Looks like Phil-in-fin has been snorting a little too much of that coke he wants legalized. What a waster!!

In case you are not aware, there is something known as sarchasm. Phil-in-fin was being funny and/or sarchastic. I thought his post was hilarious.

[phil-in-fin]

"Looks like Phil-in-fin has been snorting a little too much of that coke he wants legalized. What a waster!! Go back to grammer school loser, learn how to spell."
Posted by meswin

Funny!

Just to let you know ...

I am an English teacher (have been for the last 15 years).

Currently I am completing my M.A. in anthropology (I am writing my thesis -- it is about ideological linguistics).

I have never taken or smoked drugs, and I have never been drunk -- I have been a semi-professional athlete all my life (triathlon, cycling, swimming).

I have been known to spell the occasional word wrong, that is, so I will take your advice and learn how to spell better.

[phil-in-fin]

"Marijuana prohibition is not working and will not work. Just as prohibition did not work with alcohol. And just as with alcohol, we might as well tax it and get rid of the black market."
Posted by scott4261

Hiah,mon

Tat 'ole blak mrget sur steelin' al r mony.

Algohauls a drug 2 man, n its legull 'n evrthin' sew why not coke -- millonions snrt crak 'n stuf sos whys nuts mak crc legull.

A mean, if wes al doin' it it mus bee legull

Pro-habitzion dead notin butt mak sum mafia gue richer, sews itz hour tern nowe

[phil-in-fin]

"There's noting wrong with smoking a little grass, so all of you get off your high horses."
Posted by tucson23

Yiiah ...

Ale ov u get ov ur his

[agnim]

"Text Message Error Leads To Pot Bust"

More evidence that pot destroys brain cells. LOL

What fine teachers the Weed worshipers make.

[mo005]

phil-in-Fin: You can sure tell when someone has never done something but sure acts like they know it all. You dont have a friggin clue as to what any of us smokers are talking about so go learn a little about your drugs before you go spouting off at the mouth. Coke and crank or gofast as we called it back in my youth messed a lot of people up and still does, But smokin pot has never done anything other than make a long day feel better. I never get a hang over and cant OD. You ask anyone that does it. the most you might do on a pot buzz is uh lets see, (like I said before) buy two quarter pounders. So as far as I'm concerned, Its hipocrates such as your self that have this country wasteing valuable resources on busting people for somthing that does less harm than a stupid beer does.

[phil-in-fin]

To mo005,

You speak like a true pot-head.

I have heard many people speak as you speak, some I even knew in the Army.

One was even my father.

And when it comes to unreliable people, pot-heads. crack-heads, and drunks are at the top of not only my list, but also everybody else's who have a shread of decency.

[mo005]

Oh I got you now . your father was a screw up, so you blame all of us for your upbringing. Sorry no pitty from me. I am a self made man, smoke alot and Oh, I'll race your butt any time, got a gold medal in swimming no semi- professional there.

[phil-in-fin]

To mo005,

Why would I want your pity, pot-head?

A real role model you are.

Too bad that the doping control didn't catch you.

Do you have any children? If so, do you smoke in front of them and teach all about the big bad law-man?

[mo005]

If I did have kids, I would not smoke anywhere around them. They would have to grow up and make the decision if they want to try it or not. But I wouldnt be mad if they did. I would talk to them about the drugs that are bad for you and explain what drugs can do to hurt you if misused. Still they would have to make that decision to try those on they'er own when they were of age (18). I will say this also, you dont do drugs and say you never have I am proud for you. I didnt choose your path. Maybe I would be a little better person if I hadnt tried coke and crank. But again pot has never hurt me or anyone I know so I will defend it.

[phil-in-fin]

"If I did have kids, I would not smoke anywhere around them."
Posted by mo005

Why would you not smoke around them, if you had children? Teach them all about it at a young age, since it is just the same as having a beer, so you claim.

Tell them that marijuana does not lead to coke and crank, that marijuana makes you a better person.

I have three children: a girl 12, a boy 11, and another boy 3.

At a younger age, if you had been caught, especially when you were a competitive swimmer, you risked disgracing not only yourself, but also your entire country internationally.

You still do: When you do get caught, you will be in the papers as a former gold medalist pot-head.

Nice headline.

You will be a Jay Leno and David Letterman joke for a couple of days, when you do get caught, and trust me we all laugh at you.

What a wonderful legacy our atheletes are leaving behind: Drugs make you a winner.

Pathetic.

Defend marijuana.

Make your family proud of you.