ELYRIA — A word to the wise: If you’re going to court, you might want to leave your marijuana at home.

County sheriff’s deputies said a 17-year-old Lorain girl didn’t follow that advice when she and a friend walked into the county Justice Center on Friday morning.

Deputy Stephen Fuller said he was searching the girl’s purse around 9:45 a.m. when he found 10 individually-wrapped “dime” bags of grass worth about $10 each.

“I could not believe it,” Fuller said. “What would possess someone (to do that)?”

The girl initially tried to deny the drugs were hers, claiming that it was someone else’s purse she was holding, Fuller said.

But he wasn’t buying it.

“It had her ID in it,” he said.

The girl was taken into custody and held in the Justice Center’s juvenile holding cell until her mother arrived less than an hour later to pick her up, Fuller said.

It wasn’t clear why the girl was at the Justice Center, Fuller said.

This isn’t the first time someone has been caught bringing drugs to the Justice Center, which opened in 2004.

 Not long after it opened, a potential juror was arrested after deputies found marijuana on him when he showed up for jury duty.

The girl has been charged with juvenile counts of unruliness, conveyance of drugs into a detention facility and trafficking in drugs, Fuller said.

Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.

 

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