Ticked teen rats out mom for pot plants

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A 14-year-old boy upset that his mother threatened to send him to military school for skipping class later turned her in for growing marijuana.

A Kitsap County deputy went to the residence on NE Silver Springs Lane after the teenager called 911 emergency dispatchers and said his mother was growing pot, police reports said.

At the house, the teen told the deputy he was angry that his mom was trying to discipline him for skipping class and talking back, "and he decided to tell on his mother," the April 3 report said.

At first, the 34-year-old woman said she only smoked marijuana. She declined to let the deputy search her house further without a warrant, but then changed her mind.

"What the heck, you don't need a warrant. I'll show you," the deputy quoted the mother as saying.

In her closet, the deputy found 10 small marijuana plants. The mother said she was growing them for personal use. She also told the deputy she knows her own alleged lawbreaking is part of the problem with her son.

"It is tough to get her son to respect authority when he knows she breaks the law growing pot," the report said, quoting the mother.

Later, the son said he was concerned that he got his mother in trouble. But, as the deputy noted, "all he wanted was for her to get the message and do the right thing," the report said.

The woman was cooperative, the deputy wrote, and was not arrested.