A father's effort to track down a missing kitchen knife led to the discovery of cannabis inside his teenage son's school bag during a search at a secondary school on Friday.
According to Antigua.news, the parent contacted school officials and requested that his child's backpack be searched after a knife reportedly went missing from the family home.
Although the knife was not found, school personnel allegedly uncovered a quantity of cannabis concealed inside a plastic bag within the student's backpack.
School officials promptly contacted the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) shortly before 10 a.m. Police officers responded to the school and took possession of the suspected cannabis along with the bag.
The student, a 14-year-old boy, was later taken to CID headquarters, where investigators interviewed him in the presence of his mother.
The teenager told investigators that he had left his school bag with another individual while he went to purchase sweets, and that he was unaware the substance was inside the bag at the time of the search, as reported by Antigua.news.
Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the discovery to determine how the cannabis came to be in the student's possession. No information regarding charges has been released.
