Texting 101: Don’t send pot messages to cop Kentucky teacher sent trooper drug-deal details intended for dealer
Updated: 2:35 p.m. MT Feb 24, 2007
MURRAY, Ky. - A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to 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.
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BlueBandit24 wrote:I'm glad she learned the lesson to "program your dealers into your phone". If you get suspended with pay, is it really a punishment?
Innocent until PROVEN guilty. I'm sure the teacher's union would never let them axe her until she's convicted of something. At the same time, you don't want her teaching, so you suspend her with pay.
You have to die for it, but maybe she can get Honorable Mention.
Until convicted I agree with her not being fired, though this looks like an open and shut case. What bothers me, is the quote from the State Police spokesman. Why on earth would he say "Program your dealers into your phone?" Does he actually want criminals to act smarter? Just me, but if I'm a cop, i want the dumbest most foolish criminals out there any time I'm on the job. Only makes life easier for everyone.
You have to die for it, but maybe she can get Honorable Mention.
Oh, I didn't know they had to be dead to win.
maddog60 wrote:Until convicted I agree with her not being fired, though this looks like an open and shut case. What bothers me, is the quote from the State Police spokesman. Why on earth would he say "Program your dealers into your phone?" Does he actually want criminals to act smarter? Just me, but if I'm a cop, i want the dumbest most foolish criminals out there any time I'm on the job. Only makes life easier for everyone.
He was probably mocking the alleged by the comment would be my guess. I don't think he'd actually offer up advise to a criminal. However, we did have a cop come into our class when I was in high school and advise us that if we were going to steal/rob anything it should be ATM machines.
BlueBandit24 wrote:I'm glad she learned the lesson to "program your dealers into your phone". If you get suspended with pay, is it really a punishment?
Innocent until PROVEN guilty. I'm sure the teacher's union would never let them axe her until she's convicted of something. At the same time, you don't want her teaching, so you suspend her with pay.
Your taxpayer dollars at work.
Very true, I wasn't exactly thinking from every angle. Never post late at night.
You have to die for it, but maybe she can get Honorable Mention.
Until convicted I agree with her not being fired, though this looks like an open and shut case. What bothers me, is the quote from the State Police spokesman. Why on earth would he say "Program your dealers into your phone?" Does he actually want criminals to act smarter? Just me, but if I'm a cop, i want the dumbest most foolish criminals out there any time I'm on the job. Only makes life easier for everyone.
Maybe he just had a sense of humor. Do you honestly think that comment will help anybody purchase marijuana easier?
Omaha Red Sox wrote:However, we did have a cop come into our class when I was in high school and advise us that if we were going to steal/rob anything it should be ATM machines.
Well, that makes sense because it would most likely be strictly a property crime in that case...
We had someone try to steal the ATM at the little strip mall near our cottage a few years back by attaching a chain to the back of his pickup and trying to yank the thing out of its moorings... Unfortunately for our brilliant criminal, the machine was stronger than his truck, and the chain yanked his bumper off instead. Said genius then proceeded to book it out of there, neglecting to collect said bumper and HIS LICENSE PLATE from the ground first
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by Kilroy » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:22 am 
Do you honestly think that comment will help anybody purchase marijuana easier? 
