An envelope full of cash tipped off school administrators to an alleged drug deal planned at a Los Altos junior high school last week and led to the arrest of four teens.
Sgt. Tom Connelly of the Los Altos Police Department said a 14-year-old student from Egan Junior High School allegedly brought $145 to school as part of a plan to purchase marijuana from two students at Blach Junior High School.
Administrators contacted police after the bundle of cash, in an envelope marked “for marijuana” fell out of the student’s backpack, Connelly said.
Los Altos police arrested the Egan teen, one 13-year-old and one 14-year-old Blach student and a 15-year-old St. Francis Catholic High School student, the older sibling of the 14-year-old Blach student.
Police referred the teens to the Juvenile Probation Department, Connelly said.
