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Three juveniles were charged with possession of marijuana after being caught smoking it at Lakeview Middle School.
At 1:42 p.m. Thursday, administrators at Lakeview called Warsaw police after checking a report that boys were smoking in the restroom and smelling marijuana.
According to police reports, the three boys were called individually into Principal Patricia Deck's office in the company of their parents or guardians. All three were found to be in possession of a "green leafy substance" that later tested positive as marijuana.
Charged with possession were Joseph L. Nichols, 15, East CR 200N, Warsaw; Russell E. Kerlin, 14, West Neher Road, Silver Lake; and Gabe R. Fields, 14, Meadow Ridge, Warsaw.
Nichols and Fields were released to the custody of their parents and Kerlin was released to his grandfather's custody. All three were suspended from school for the remainder of the year and for the first semester of next year.
