Houston County High School Senior Gets Arrested For Beer Of His Dad and Gets Alternative School

Rickey Stokes

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Date: May 02 2012 8:31 PM

COLUMBIA:    An  18 year old Senior of Houston County High School gets into his 4 door pickup truck and drives to school. All is normal.

Later in the school day the young man goes to the truck to put his book bag into the truck. The young man opens the front door of the truck and tosses his book bag in the seat. As he closes the door he gets a glimpse of beer behind the driver’s seat in the floorboard.

After the young man saw the beer he knew it was not his beer. He knew his dad had driven the truck. Afraid he threw a jacket over the beer in the floorboard.

As the 18 year old young man left the truck he was approached by Houston County Sheriff Deputy Scott Wilson. The young man was carried to the office. The young man called his dad who was in Webb and he left going to the school.

In the meeting the reports are Deputy Wilson told the young man he could charge him with possession of the beer. That he was making a report and would have one year to get an arrest warrant on the young man. According to reports Deputy Wilson told the 18 year old young man he was to always know what was in his truck.

In a conference at the school the father realized, WAIT!!! Last night I drove my son’s truck and that was the beer he bought for the person with him that he was carrying home.

See the young man’s father works from his truck. His truck was loaded with equipment and a trailer was behind his truck. So when he ran the man home he jumped in his son’s truck and carried him home. They stopped and a 6 pack of beer was bought. The young man’s father thought the man had gotten the beer out of the truck when he dropped him off at home. He never thought of it again.

That was told to the school officials and Deputy Wilson.

The next morning, Tuesday, the young man and his parents met with the school officials at Houston County High School. The school officials ordered the young man to alternative school for 12 days. On Wednesday the young man reported to Houston County Alternative School in Dothan. The young man is set to graduate. This is his Senior year.

Today, the senior from Houston County High School in Columbia, while at Alternative School, was told by a Houston County Sheriff Deputy that an arrest warrant for his arrest had been issued. The young man was told immediately after school he was to report to the Houston County Jail and surrender to the jail on the warrant.

The young man had a doctor’s appointment and asked the Deputy could he first go to the doctor’s appointment to get the staple’s removed from his leg. The deputy said yes.

Following the doctor’s appointment the young man went to the Houston County Jail. The Correctional Officer’s carried him into lockup. They had to wait on the paperwork because the Deputy had never carried the paperwork to the jail.  At the jail an arrest warrant was completed, the young man was fingerprinted, photograph taken, and required to make a bail bond in the amount of $ 300 for the offense Alcohol – Minor/Possession.

The young man was placed in the adult Houston County Jail where all of the adults are booked into jail on offenses. He will have a June court date where he will face a Judge for the offense.

Arrested and booked into the jail for an offense of having beer in the truck on school grounds. And the beer was his dad’s and he had no knowledge the beer was in his truck prior to him putting the book bag in the truck at lunch. And his dad told the school and Deputy it was his beer and to punish him and not his son.

I will not put this young man’s picture up but if I did you would see he is a clean cut, nice and polite young man. He is a young man that has attended the Houston County Schools and never been a problem child or into trouble.

His dad has now been forced to hire an attorney for his son.

The young man has a scholarship and this could affect that scholarship.

NOTE:  

The following has nothing to do with this article other than Deputy Wilson’s reported statement to the 18 year old young man “you are to always know what was in his truck”.

In Henry County Lt. Troy Silva of Henry County Sheriff   rode around for two months with evidence from criminal cases in his truck. Evidence he had picked up from the crime lab to return to the evidence vault. The ranking Henry County Sheriff Lt. Troy Silva claimed the drugs were stolen from his truck after two months.

According to Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox in a report to WDHN, Sheriff Maddox said drugs which included marijuana, illegal pills, and a bag containing methamphetamine residue were in Lt. Silva’s truck. The drugs had been sent to the lab for testing in order to substantiate evidence against an unknown number of defendants in criminal cases.

WDHN reported “Meanwhile, Sheriff Will Maddox said he plans no disciplinary action against Silva calling the officer’s actions an honest mistake”.

I realize Houston County Deputies arrested this young man and not Henry County.

But if the ranking officer of one department can ride around for two months with drugs which included marijuana, illegal pills, and a bag containing methamphetamine residue and it be called “an honest mistake”, but an excellent high school senior gets into trouble for something he did not even know was in his truck. And the 18 year old gets arrested, booked into the adult jail, fingerprinted and photographed as an adult and sent to Alternative School for 12 days.

Being an official with power requires ZERO common sense!!!

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