Special education teacher, 50, arrested for smoking pot under the bleachers at high school wrestling match



Busted: Police say Peter Mulloy was smoking marijuana directly beneath an off-duty police officer who was in the stands

An off-duty officer who smelled marijuana wafting up from under the bleachers at a high school wrestling match found a 50-year-old special education teacher smoking drugs.



Police arrested Peter Mulloy at Antioch High School in suburban Chicago on Saturday on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.



Mulloy has taught at rival Warren Township High School since 2007.

He told police that he was at Antioch High School to support the Warren Township team, which was at the match.

Police found a 'one hitter' marijuana pipe that Mulloy had smoked, as well as a box to drive the marijuana.



He happened to smoke the drugs directly below the off-duty officer who was sitting in the stands, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

The school district says Mulloy was not at the wrestling match in an official capacity.

Police say he was there with his family.



The superintendent would not say whether Mulloy had been suspended. However, he was not teaching on Thursday.



The school said administrators were dealing with Mulloy by as dictated by 'school board policy.'

Mulloy was freed from jail after posting $120 bond.

Warren Township is a far northern suburb of Chicago, about an hour outside the city center.

Kids' stuff: Smoking under the high school bleachers is thought to be an activity for rowdy students, not middle-age teachers



