WESTPORT, Conn. – A Connecticut high school senior faces drug charges after he was allegedly busted snorting cocaine with another student in a school bathroom.
Westport Police Lt. David Farrell told Westport Now officers arrested 18-year-old senior Cameron Clearly Tuesday on charges of possession and sale of a controlled substance on school property.
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A school security guard allegedly found Clearly in a school bathroom snorting cocaine with an unnamed juvenile student around 1:15 p.m. and called Westport Police, The Hour reports.
“Officers interviewed Cameron Cleary, who admitted to selling cocaine to a juvenile student and snorting it with the juvenile in the bathroom,” Farrell said.
It’s unclear whether the other student faces any consequences as a result of the incident.
“The suspected cocaine was seized and tested positive for cocaine,” Westport Police posted to Facebook.
Clearly, who played on Staples’ football team in 2014-15, posted a $1,000 bond and was released from jail Friday afternoon.
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He’s scheduled to appear in court to face the charges next Thursday.
The incident follows another bizarre cocaine bust at a Georgia high school last month.
In that case, 28-year-old Joseph Mincey was busted as he attempted to sell cocaine to a Glynn County High School student at a local shopping center. Deputies allegedly found Mincey with two ounces of cocaine on him, and further investigation revealed his 76-year-old grandmother Elnora Mincey helped him peddle his product to high schoolers, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Police also recovered two loaded guns, $2,300 in cash and several pounds of marijuana and cocaine at his home after executing a search warrant. Both Mincey and his grandmother were charged with drug crimes, and Mincey pleaded guilty to cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to distribute, as well as firearms possession charges, U.S. Attorney Edward Tarver said.
“It can’t get any worse than a drug dealer and his grandmother selling poison in our schools,” Tarver said. “It is unfortunate that the life lessons learned by (Joseph Mincey) led him to a federal prison sentence.”
Mincey was sentenced to six years in prison on Jan. 23.


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