Parents Planted Drugs on Volunteer: Cops

Parents who are dissatisfied with some aspect of their child's education often consider setting up a meeting with the child's teacher or make a phone call to the school.

But Kent and Jill Easter, both 38 lawyers and parents of an elementary school student in Irvine, Calif., opted to take matters into their own hands, police claim.

The couple were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly planting drugs in the car of a volunteer at their child's school, according to the Irvine Police Department because they thought the parent volunteer "was not properly supervising" their son, said Lt. Julia Engen.

"It is an absolute, over-the-top, irrational response to what would ordinarily be a minor dispute," Engen said. "It's inexplicable."

Kent Easter drove to the home of the school volunteer, whom police are calling "Jane Doe," early on the morning of Feb. 16, 2011, and placed a bag of marijuana, Percocet and Vicodin on the driver's seat of her unlocked car, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office.

Later that afternoon, he allegedly called the Irvine Police Department's non-emergency number and, using a false name and phone number, told the dispatcher that he had seen Jane Doe driving erratically and that she had parked at the elementary school, police said.

He also allegedly told police that he'd seen the woman hide a bag of drugs behind the driver's seat, and provided them with her full name and license plate number.

Orange County Sheriff's Dept.

Police were able to see the bag of drugs from outside the vehicle, and they contacted the volunteer who allowed them to search her car and her home. She was emphatic that the drugs weren't hers and that she had been in a classroom at the time Kent Easter claimed to have seen her put the drugs there, police said.

She was detained for felony drug possession, but Engen said the responding police officer could tell that something wasn't adding up based on the volunteer's adamant reaction and the fact that she'd been at school when the tipster claimed to have seen her.

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