Pa. teacher charged with growing and selling pot
SOUTH PARK, Pa. (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area high school teacher has been charged with conspiring to grow, possess and sell marijuana.
Online court records show South Park Township police have charged 41-year-old Scott Houck, an 11-year veteran teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, south of the city.
Michael Panza, superintendent of the West Jefferson Hills School District, says school officials have reviewed computers and the teacher’s room and determined there’s no link between his alleged drug trafficking and his duties at the school, where Houck teaches tech classes.
Officials say Houck has been out of town, but was due back today. That’s when township and Pennsylvania State Police hoped to arrest him on the arrest warrant they obtained Sunday.