Cafeteria worker finds marijuana on child’s lunch money

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A North Kingstown mother blamed her ex-boyfriend’s marijuana growing operation for the pot residue a cafeteria worker found in a plastic bag containing her child’s lunch money at Fishing Cove Elementary School last week.

Police said they were dispatched to the school on Feb. 27 after a report of a suspicious green substance found in a plastic bag.

According to a police report, the classroom teacher collected money from three students for lunch at the beginning of the school day. Two of the students provided loose change and the third gave money that was contained in the bag.

All the money then was put into a vinyl purse and zipped closed before it went to a collection bin.

Later, just before lunch, a cafeteria worker started counting the money when she noticed a green dusty substance coating the coins in the aforementioned plastic bag.

The green dust smelled like marijuana and she contacted her supervisor who then collected the green stuff on a piece of paper and brought it to the principal’s office.