June 30, 2010 School security guard charged with selling crack www.privateofficer.com
A second Highlands School District substitute security guard, who has been a summer custodian, is facing drug charges.
Earl Vaughn Fletcher, 49, of the 400 block of East Seventh Avenue, Tarentum, is accused of selling crack cocaine to an informant last March in Tarentum, police said.
Fletcher has been a part-time security employee for about six months and, earlier this month, was hired as one of about 25 part-time summer custodians to help with the summer cleanup of schools, said district spokeswoman Misty Chybrzynski.
Fletcher started the custodian job “a week or so” after the June 4 last day of regular classes for students. The summer job has a paycheck but no benefits.
“He had a clean record and he passed his urine test” to show there were no drugs in his body at the time of the test, Chybrzynski said Tuesday.
Court records indicate that Fletcher has no criminal record. He at least twice pleaded guilty to summary offenses of driving while his license was suspended. He was fined.
Chybrzynski said that didn’t appear on his background check.
“His file does not indicate any wrongdoing; nothing is on his clearances here,” she said in a follow-up e-mail.
She couldn’t say if the summary driving offenses would have disqualified Fletcher. “However, we generally only consider candidates with clean clearances for hire, even for substitute or temporary hire, such as summer workers,” she wrote.
Chybrzynski said the school district was told Friday by a school security employee that Fletcher had been charged by Tarentum police. He was “immediately removed from the district’s substitute list,” Chybrzynski said.
According to a police affidavit, about three months ago Fletcher agreed in a phone call to sell the informant crack for $80.
Fletcher allegedly told the informant to meet him at the intersection of Henry Street and East Seventh Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. March 12.
The police report said Fletcher was picked up by the informant and driven about a block away where he walked across the train tracks to an Allegheny County Public Housing Authority apartment building.
The informant allegedly parked outside until Fletcher came outside and got into the vehicle and was returned to the intersection.
The Housing Authority manages the Phillip Burtner Apartments at 524-527 east Fifth Avenue. There are 24 apartments in two 3-story buildings.
According to the affidavit, Fletcher sold a rock of crack cocaine to the informant.
He is charged with having an illegal drug, possessing a drug with intent to deliver it and drug delivery.
When Fletcher was arraigned Friday, his bond was set at $15,000 but reduced to $5,000 when a district judge learned he doesn’t have a criminal record.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for today.
Fletcher is the second Highlands School District substitute guard within about six months to face charges.
Dean Banner, 52, who was a substitute security guard, is charged with selling or furnishing alcohol to minors and disorderly conduct late last year.
He was suspended and later fired from the school district job.
Banner, who doesn’t have a criminal record, was released on his own recognizance. A non-jury trial is scheduled for September.
Last year, full-time Highlands teacher’s aide Abbie Jane Swogger was sentenced to three to six years in state prison and 36 years of probation for having sex with teenage boys away from the school.
Source:Pittsburgh News
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