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Cocaine inside Louisiana Kindergartener's school cubby leads to Metairie mom's arrest
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:10 am
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:10 am
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The mother of a 7-year-old Kindergarten student was arrested at his Metairie elementary school after he was found with 4 ounces of cocaine, according to authorities.
Mari Mejia Zelaya, 25, was taken into custody March 20 at J.C. Ellis Elementary School and booked with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and cruelty to a juvenile involving drugs, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Mejia's son was in class that day when his teacher saw him removing four bags of what appeared to be powder cocaine from his cubby hole, Detective Jeremy Budo testified Wednesday during a hearing in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court.
Each of the four bags was tightly wrapped in plastic and contained about 28 grams of the drug, according to Budo.
When the teacher asked the boy about the bags, he told her they were “something his mommy had forgotten,” Budo testified.
School officials told investigators that Mejia had actually checked out the boy earlier in the day only to return him to class about 15 minutes later.
"She said she checked [her son] out of school hoping the bags were still in his backpack," Budo said.
But by then, the 7-year-old had apparently put the cocaine in his classroom cubby.
"After leaving the school with him and realizing they were no longer in his bag, she sent him back into the school with the intention of having him recover the bags,” Budo said.
The teacher saw the drugs as the child tried to remove them from the cubby, according to authorities.
Though she first tried to deny knowing about the cocaine, she eventually confessed and admitted to stashing another 4 ounces of the drug in her purse, which she hid under a vehicle when she realized law enforcement had been called to the school, Budo said. Investigators recovered the additional cocaine.
Mejia told authorities she was holding the drugs for another person to earn money, according to Budo.
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Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:11 am to SPEEDY
Pics of Mom?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:11 am to SPEEDY
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7-year-old Kindergarten student
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4 ounces of cocaine
Good grief.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:12 am to SPEEDY
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7-year-old Kindergarten student
What?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:13 am to SPEEDY
Thats a shitload of cocaine.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:13 am to SPEEDY
They started getting suspicious when the kid was always an hour early for school.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:14 am to SPEEDY
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Mari Mejia Zelaya, 25
They’re not sending their best.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:14 am to SPEEDY
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7-year-old Kindergarten student
Yeah, his life is fricked
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:15 am to SPEEDY
Tha advocate really put in some time and effort into photographing the evidence:
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:16 am to SPEEDY
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7-year-old Kindergarten student
4 ounces of cocaine
Mari Mejia Zelaya, 25
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:17 am to SPEEDY
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Cocaine inside Kindergartener's school cubby
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:17 am to SPEEDY
Teach your kids what cocaine looks like so if they come across some they will bring it home to you
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:33 am to SPEEDY
Did the Biden’s make a recent visit?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:35 am to SPEEDY
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Mari Mejia Zelaya, 25,
Another mail in vote for Biden
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:36 am to SPEEDY
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she eventually confessed and admitted to stashing another 4 ounces of the drug in her purse
Moron.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:38 am to SPEEDY
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Mari Mejia Zelaya
Has to go back
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:41 am to SPEEDY
Kindergarten at 7....was she holding him back for athletics?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:41 am to SPEEDY
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Mari Mejia Zelaya, 25,
2-1 she lives in a Fat City apartment….
JC Ellis is in the middle of a white neighborhood.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:53 am to SPEEDY
Snitches don’t get fruit snacks, kid. Bad choice.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 8:53 am to SPEEDY
7 years old? This kid must look like Billy Madison at story time next to the 5 year olds there.
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