(Newswire.net — April 28, 2017) — Spanish Fork, Utah – A Utah couple and another person were arrested earlier this week, after an undercover investigation into their residence had revealed an ongoing drug activity.
After reportedly telling the police they regularly allowed their 14-years old son to consume a joint or two, parents were arrested on child endangerment charges.
The police searched their home in Spanish Fork on April 18, discovering two ounces of marijuana and four guns, according to the local police.
“As long as he went to the school and got good grades, they let him have marijuana every day,” Sgt. Spencer Cannon from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office told the 4 Utah ABC branch. He added that after officers executed the search warrant and steeped into the house, they could immediately smell “the overwhelming odor of marijuana.”
“After entering the home, investigators discovered there was a 14 year old boy there,” Cannon said adding that his parents, Edwin Lee Steward, 37, and Valerie Steward, 37, were arrested after telling investigators “they regularly allowed their son to smoke marijuana.”
According to AP, parents believed that marijuana helped their son concentrate at school.
Besides child endangerment, the parents are also charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Wesley Morse Vivian, 35, a third person found in Stewards’ home and detained together with the Steward couple, was found to be the owner of the firearms and was also charged with possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The most frequent users of marijuana in the US are more likely to earn less than $20,000 a year and lack a high school education, according to researchers, Russia Today has reported.
The same study also showed that as marijuana laws became more liberal over the past decade, the number of marijuana-related arrests decreased.