{"id":304537,"date":"2010-02-10T22:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:30:53","slug":"high-school-dean-on-paid-leave-after-pot-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304537","title":{"rendered":"High school dean on paid leave after pot arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A dean of students at Zion-Benton Township High School is on paid leave after police arrested her for allegedly growing marijuana in the basement of her north suburban home.<\/p>\n

District 126 Superintendent Chris Clark said Tuesday that based on information district officials received from the Zion Police Department, Candace Blanton was placed on paid administrative leave pending further investigation of the charges.<\/p>\n

Clark said district officials will have no further comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blanton, 38, was taken into custody Feb. 1 after police searched the residence in the 2700 block of Emmaus Avenue and found evidence marijuana was being grown indoors.<\/p>\n

Blanton was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a sativa plant and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

She was also charged with a felony count of obstructing justice.<\/p>\n

She was released on a $150,000 recognizance bond and has a preliminary hearing date set for March 3.<\/p>\n

Blanton grew up in North Chicago and attended Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, where she was on the women’s track team, competing in shot put and javelin.<\/p>\n

She graduated in 1996.<\/p>\n

In 2004, she coached the eighth-grade boys basketball team at Viking School in Gurnee Grade School District 56 to an undefeated season.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A dean of students at Zion-Benton Township High School is on paid leave after police arrested her for allegedly growing marijuana in the basement of her north suburban home. District 126 Superintendent Chris Clark said Tuesday that based on information district officials received from the Zion Police Department, Candace Blanton was placed on paid administrative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}