MHS student nabbed in drug search at school

A drug-sniffing dog turned up 14 packets of suspected cocaine during a random drug search at Memorial High School senior campus on Thursday.

The student in whose property the drugs were found was arrested. Jesus Hernandez, 18, was charged with possession of a controlled substance.

After the dog alerted to possible drugs in Hernandez's possessions, police officer J. Mark Jameson, who is assigned to Memorial's campus, was called to the classroom and Hernandez's possessions were searched. Lt. Kevin Kelso with the Victoria Police Department said that powdered cocaine was the only drug found on the teen.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service has placed a hold on the student.

"The hold by INS was initiated when it was not known whether he was a U.S. citizen or not," said Mike Ratcliff, chief of staff for the criminal district attorney's office.

If there is reason to believe the person is not a citizen and in the U.S. illegally, it is common for the immigration service to call for placement of a hold, he said.

"The law enforcement agency will make presentment of the drug case to us when it is completed. The immigration service will conduct its own investigation on the suspect's status," Ratcliff said.

It is known from the arrest report that the suspect does not have a Social Security number and he was born in Mexico.

Ron Leach, chief operations officer, said that while seven campuses were checked for drugs this week, the search was not part of any larger back to school sweep.

The company that conducted the searches, K9 Contraband, is under contract with the district and has worked with the district for several years, Leach said.

The district pays $125 for half a day and $225 for a full day of service for the drug searches.

The handler and the dog enter the schools at the district's request with no notice to the schools, Leach said.

"If they go in the classroom, we ask the students to go in the hall so it is a vacant classroom that the handler and dog are visiting," Leach said.

Routinely the dog handler will ask for an assistant superintendent to accompany them as they visit the schools...(end of article)

Does this sound familiar?   We give illegals a free education, and what do they do? Turn the  school grounds into a  one stop drug shop!

Did this "poor uneducated victim of a third world society" keep his nose clean and educate himself.......hell no! He was there to sell cocaine, or any other drug he could get hold of.  It's a shame he doesn't merit capital punishment, and a public one at that....bet the drug traffic would take a nose dive, if they seen every piece of crap drug dealer swinging at the city limits. Meanwhile the bleeding hearts out there are doing evrything they can to keep scum like this in our schools..........riff