Ringgold student arrested
An 18-year-old Ringgold High School student is in custody and four unnamed classmates are to be charged in juvenile petitions on allegations they were dealing a small amount of prescription medication in the cafeteria.
Carroll Township police Monday arrested Christopher Pagano, 18, of 129 Valleyview Drive, Finleyville, on three counts each of drug possession and drug possession with intent to deliver, and took him before District Judge Mark Wilson for an arraignment. Wilson remanded him to the Washington County jail on $10,000 bond, where he remained Tuesday.
An assistant principal at Ringgold, Jason Minniti, contacted police after he received anonymous complaints that Pagano and a student identified only as D.S. were passing pills about 11 a.m. Nov. 3., court records show.
Pagano allegedly was overheard saying, “I got three Vicodin,” in a conversation with D.S., who reportedly was given three tablets of Xanax for the narcotic painkillers in a trade. Minniti told police Pagano confessed to selling the Vicodin to three juveniles.
Pagano was called into the office for questioning after a review of surveillance of the school cafeteria showed him hand something to another student, police stated in the affidavit.
Two of the students who purchased a pill admitted to ingesting the Vicodin, while the third said a pill had been thrown away, the record indicates.