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Stevenson student Curtis Hill details how he was searched in drug probe

Curtis Hill, 18, says he was unfairly suspended for not letting Stevenson High School deans search his cellphone for a drug investigation. Hill has not been arrested or charged. (Richard Bajjalieh, Photo for the Chicago Tribune / February 2, 2012)

Curtis Hill, 18, says he was unfairly suspended for not letting Stevenson High School deans search his cellphone for a drug investigation. Hill has not been arrested or charged. (Richard Bajjalieh, Photo for the Chicago Tribune / February 2, 2012)

Curtis Hill, 18, said he was in his AP environmental science class at Stevenson High School on Wednesday when two deans appeared at the door. They told him to come along, and to bring all of his belongings.

Moments later, Hill said, the deans were going through his backpack and wallet, saying he was a suspect in the Lincolnshire school’s expansive drug investigation. He said he was told the subpoenaed phone records of an alleged campus drug dealer had yielded texts from someone named “Curtis,” who in November had inquired about buying marijuana-laced cookies.

Hill, a senior, said that despite his protestations of innocence, the officials were convinced he was their man. So once they were done searching his things, he said, one of the deans picked up his password-protected cellphone and asked:

“So, Curtis, are you going to tell me your pass code?”

Read more at the Chicago Tribune.

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