Commander Solberg, MPD 5th District (file photo, MPD)
MPD reports that they arrested a “female student attending a local University” last night for possession of narcotics and intent to distribute. MPD recovered 1 1/2 pounds of weed, as well as prescription drugs, scales, etc.
Although the below release from MPD did not identify the student or her University, a source indicates that she attended Gallaudet University in our neighborhood. We are not publishing her name until it is made public by MPD.
UPDATE: the WaPo confirmed the student’s identity as Molly E. Sachs, a current student. The also report that an RA smelled marijuana, leading security officers to search the room, leading to MPD’s arrest.
From MPD:
On Sunday, January 27, 2013 At 10:45 PM, Fifth District Patrol Officers Vamos, Ferris and Sakulich arrested an adult female student attending a local University for violation of the DC Uniformed Control Substance Act (UCSA) Possession with the Intent to Distribute (PWID) Marijuana (approx. a pound and a half or more), also seized over 700 assorted prescribed narcotic pills, scales, plastic bags and other items of drug related paraphernalia.
Also seized were fudge brownies and cookies containing Marijuana packaged for distribution, as well as over $1000 in U.S. currency was also seized as evidence as well as electronic devices that may be linked to a drug distribution network. She remains in custody, was processed for court and will be arraigned in DC Superior Court today.
Members of the Fifth Police District Vice, Narcotic and Special Investigation Division and our Intelligence Unit has been provided this information and will be reviewing for an effective investigative follow up.
These 5D Officers working in concert are well trained and as a team were able to immediately identify, field test and effect an arrest of an individual trafficking narcotics within the District of Columbia with a direct nexus to our community.
Mark Beach
Assistant District Patrol Commander
Metropolitan DC Police Department
Fifth Police District
What? Her RA called the cops for the smell of marijuana? A college student smoking pot?
I smell this almost every day walking down the streets of DC. Should I have the cops on speed dial?
No, the RA called the Campus Security who inspected the room THEN called the police.
she needed a medical marijuana license.
Actually, Gallaudet’s student handbook expressively says that ALL marijuana is forbidden, medical or otherwise. So even if she had a license, she would still have gone through this. And it does not dismiss the intent to distribute that the police have determined that she had.