Please save the judgmental sneers; I’ve learned from my mistakes and I’ve stopped being the delinquent I used to be.
But anyways, this guy I’ve bought weed off of a couple times got busted, and I’m scared that this will eventually lead back to me. Is this plausible? When dealers get caught at high schools, do they usually go down the “chain of supply” to the people that received the product? And if I do get caught and this somehow goes on my record, will I get rescinded?
I’ve recently been admitted to a very prestigious college, and I’m scared that this whole ordeal will lead to me getting rescinded.
If your phone number is on his cell phone, I’d probably be concerned. But it is still quite a number of steps away from you being charged with anything.
With marijuana becoming decriminalized in more places, law enforcement elsewhere is easing up. Also the pattern is to go “up the chain”, to the main suppliers, not “down the chain”. The other advise you got here already is sound; don’t talk about it to anyone and try not worry about it too much.
And I’m not talking just the police. I am talking the school resource office. The guidance counselor who just wants to ask a few questions. The principal. The cafeteria lady who heard a rumor your name was on his phone.
Here’s what you say if they bring you to the school admin office, “I need to contact my parents who will contact a lawyer’. And keep repeating that. Say it nicely. But answer zero questions. Z e r o.
And of course. This also applies to the police station. Or if a police officer knocks on your door.
Don’t acknowledge knowing the guy. Or even confirming your phone number.
Answer zero questions. Ask for an attorney.
Sadly, students in schools have zero rights to request an attorney or request a parent be called. Do not even answer small teeny questions at school. Or at the police station. Zero zero zero words are to be spoken by you. Except ‘I want an attorney”
And also, do NOT confide in a friend. You can literally speak to three people about this:
Your mom
Your dad
Your attorney.
OP, I think you will probably be ok and not be implicated. But, if I could agree with @materof2 's posts 1,000 times I would, please heed that excellent advice.
Edited to add: no more contact with your arrested dealer either. Not one conversation. Not one call. Not one text. Not one Snap. Unfollow him on all of your social media channels. ASAP
Thanks for all of your advice. Just to clarify, he hasn’t gotten arrested, and I think all the disciplinary action is going through the school system alone (i.e. suspension, expulsion and the like). What are the realistic chances that the school attempts to find people he’s dealt to by looking through his phone/offering leniency for naming his customers?
First off, why would you even risk it. Were the few moments of “being high” worth your future? If you knew that you would be going to a good school, it just doesn’t make sense as to why you would throw that all away to just be “cool”. I honestly hope that you are at least talked to so that you know not to be stupid again. I am just saying this because the road you were and possibly will be taking that involves drugs only leads to destruction and misery.
I would find a better way to not discuss this than to blurt out you’re going to call your lawyer. Some impression that would make.
As usual, we don’t know the state and its laws, nor what the high school policies are. We don’t know if this high school even reports discipline. Or if the college will care if he’s merely cited for weed.
OP should have no evidence in his possession. Nothing.
My initial reaction was to suggest: “OP: You need to find a way to relax & remain calm. Don’t be paranoid.” But then I realized that that may have caused the problem in the first place.
In my opinion, it would be too much of a leap for the authorities to prove that you bought weed just because your phone number is in the dealer’s phone. Don’t discuss this with anyone and you should be ok.
I don’t think OP is worried about law enforcement, he is worried about school. And if the dealer tells on him, there may be consequences; there would be at our high school. So he should not relax quite yet.
“I think you can relax. There is next to no way enough evidence exists to implicate you.”
If the dealer told the school the names of the people he sold drugs to on school grounds, that would be all the evidence the school needs to implicate OP. Also, a lawyer isn’t going to do any good in this situation. This is an internal school discipline matter, not a court of law.
Implicate yes, discipline-not enough unless there is more proof than “he said-he said”. In our public school district, being caught with illegal drugs requires police involvement. Then, police and school disciplinary tracks will run separately—but generally the school waits to undertake disciplinary process and recommendation until the police investigation is finished. So, lawyer required and will help immensely. Students should not submit to questioning by school admin and/or police without parents and/or lawyer present.
Mwfan - whatever the procedure is in your district, this is what OP said:
“Just to clarify, he hasn’t gotten arrested, and I think all the disciplinary action is going through the school system alone (i.e. suspension, expulsion and the like).”
Cops aren’t involved and OP is worried about school discipline, not a criminal investigation. All the school needs is a rational basis for imposing discipline, and dealer’s statement that he sold drugs to OP on school grounds more than suffices in that regard.
