CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — A Chicago Public Schools teacher was arrested and charged with felony possession of cannabis after she was stopped for a traffic violation Friday night on the South Side, police said.
In an unrelated incident involving a CPS employee, a vice principal of a Rogers Park elementary school was arrested for driving while his license was suspended late Friday on the North Side.
Jacqueline Hobbs Brown, 58, of the 10100 block of S. St. Lawrence Avenue, was charged with felony possession of cannabis and cited with failure to stop at a stop sign, according to police.
Hobbs Brown was driving a 2004 Dodge Neon east on 85th Street when she allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign at 334 E. 85th St., according to a police report.
In the report, Hobbs Brown told police she was a CPS teacher at an unidentified school.
A woman named Jacqueline Hobbs-Brown is listed as a teacher at Julian high school in the 10300 block of South Elizabeth Street, according to the school’s website.
Officers curbed the Neon and an officer saw a medicine bottle on the front passenger seat containing several white hand rolled cigars containing a green leaf substance that was suspected to be cannabis, according to the report.
The Neon was searched and officers found another cigar box in the same area with three brown hand-rolled cigars — each allegedly containing cannabis, the report said. She was arrested at 10:25 p.m. at 357 E. 85th St.
In an unrelated incident, Brian Metcalf, 35, and Vice Principal of George Armstrong Elementary School, 2110 W. Greenleaf Ave., was arrested at 11 p.m. Friday at 1327 W. Pratt Ave. and cited with failing to yield right of way and for driving on a suspended driver’s license, a police report said.
Metcalf was driving a 2004 BMW that was pulled over by police after failing to give right of way.
Metcalf, of the 5200 block of North Winthrop Avenue, was unable to provide a driver’s license and officers learned that he had an outstanding warrant issued by the Illinois State Police for driving while on a suspended license, according to the report.
A CPS spokeswoman was not immediately available.
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