A second-grader in Vermont inadvertently led police to a marijuana bust in his own home.
According to an affidavit written by Windsor Police Department Detective Jennifer Frank, the 8-year-old boy told school officials and police about helping his mother's boyfriend grow "special medicine that can cure anything at all."
As the boy described the plants, Frank determined that they sounded like marijuana plants.
The story led police to show up at the White River Junction, Vermont, home of the boy's mother and her boyfriend, Leona Hunt and Steven Mann, Friday.
In the detective's affidavit, she wrote that according to the boy, Mann gave the plants to "anyone who needs the medicine," and that phone calls and visitors were frequent at the house.
According to Mann's own written admission to police, Hunt "had just taken a hit when (the police) knocked."
The Times-Argus reported that Frank was handed a warm pipe by Mann, which seemed to have been used by both adults in the same room as the boy.
Allegedly, 90 percent of Mann's business came from New Hampshire, where he said he sold marijuana for $10 a joint or $50 for an eighth of an ounce.
Police found two "grow rooms" next to the boy's bedroom which collectively had over 25 marijuana plants.
Because of the proximity of the grow rooms to the child, the Department for Children and Families launched an investigation.
Mann, 54, pleaded not guilty to felony charges.
Charges are expected for Hunt as well, according to police.
If convicted, Mann, who does not have a criminal record, may face 15 years in prison.
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