Avella student charged with selling drugs on school bus
An Avella Area High School student faces drug charges after he allegedly tried to sell narcotics on a school bus going from Western Area Career and Technology Center to the high school last month
Devin Plymire, 18, of 53 W. Main St., West Middletown, was charged Tuesday by school district police with possession and possession with intent to deliver narcotics, possession of paraphernalia and corruption of minors.
A student told a teacher who in turn notified Superintendent Cyril Walther on Jan. 10. The officer and Walther escorted Plymire to the superintendent’s office. Walther then seized three different types of controlled substances from the 18-year-old.
Plymire reportedly told district officials he was given the drugs by another student. That student also was talked to by district officials. He reportedly admitted he brought two of his grandmother’s prescribed medications and gave them to Plymire to sell with the two splitting the proceeds.
Police also seized a bottle of suspected liquid Oxycodone prescribed to one of his family members.
Plymire told the officer he did not bring the drugs into the school. He said the drugs were given to him by the other student during homeroom. The other boy was interviewed with his grandmother present and reportedly admitted in a statement to giving Plymire the pills.
A girl who was on the bus reportedly told police Plymire was trying to sell the pills for $5, claiming they were muscle relaxers.
The charges were sent by summons from the office of District Judge Gary Havelka. Plymire is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Havelka on March 23. The district is also seeking restitution of $425 to be split between Plymire and the boy for laboratory testing of the drugs.