High School Football Coach’s Future Went Up In Smoke

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Coach's future is up in smoke after his arrest for cultivating pot.

Coach's future is up in smoke after his arrest for cultivating pot.

A former assistant football coach at Washington High School in Massillon County, Ohio finds his future up with the school “up in smoke” after being arrested in an investigation that netted over 300 marijuana plants being cultivated at two residences.

Former high school kicker and quarterback Brett Marshall was employed as a volunteer assistant coach at the high school up until his arrest. What has also come to light is that Marshall was also arrested in 2006 for another drug-related offense.

School policy dictates that assistant coaches, whether on a paid or volunteer basis, must submit to a background and then be certified before they can assume coaching duties on the field.

The checks conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations would have definitely turned up Marshall’s 2006 arrest in which he was charged with a major and minor misdemeanor for permitting drug abuse.

“Assuming the clerk of courts submitted it, if the individual was arrested, booked and fingerprinted and that was sent to us, it would be returned.” said Ted Hart, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

So what exactly happened here? At this point, the story gets a little murky as to what went wrong. By all means, an offense of this sort should have disqualified Marshall right off the bat.

Reporters for CantonRep.com attempted to reach several high-ranking school district employees including Superintendant Lisa Carmichael, Assistant Superintendant Mark Fortner and the Security Administrator. Emails and phone calls were not returned.

What can be gathered then, is that this may have been a case of Marshall slipping under the radar. This blogger’s suspicions were aroused by the following statements from Board Member Marshall Weinberg:

“Brett’s name just showed up in a list of approving people,” Weinberg said. “He was nonpaid and had been there for a while.”

And the 2006 charge?

Without a doubt it would have raised a red flag in anybody’s mind,” he said. “These (coaches) are who’s around our kids. The safety of our kids is a prime concern on a daily basis.”

But surely the system would have caught him right?

“We fingerprint and do the whole thing,” he said.

Well, somewhere along the line there was a mix up because now the coach working directly with young students has been arrested for growing dope plants and not just a few for “medicinal purposes”.

You can’t just have a background system sitting there and expect it to work. If the Massillon School District wants to avoid another incident like this in the future, they should to take the background screening process a little more seriously.

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