Drugs, Marijuana

The Ungrateful Tattletale

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Can you imagine rolling on your parents in an attempt to get out of a drug conviction? What if your parents were both attorneys? According to the Boston Globe, one kid attempted to throw his cool sounding parents right under the bus:

Two prominent attorneys are under police scrutiny after their son, arrested on charges he was dealing marijuana from home, told investigators his parents knew what he was doing. Police found a small smoking pipe, scale and baggies in their bedroom.
Jonathon Cook, 20, said his stepfather, Suffolk University law professor Timothy Wilton, helped him build a place to grow marijuana in exchange for some of the profits and also smoked it in the house, according to a police report.
He said that his mother, Kathy Jo Cook — the former president of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts — also knew about the drug activity and frequently complained that her husband’s smoking left the house smelling like marijuana, authorities said.

Let me get this straight. Instead of beating you like a red-headed step child your stepdad actually helps you grow weed. Your mom isn’t happy about it but allows it to continue. And you — snot-nosed 20-year-old asshole that you are — rat them out for it? What kind of world are we living in?
His parents deny all of the allegations.
It is of course entirely possible that Jonathon Cook simply made this all up, which makes him a bad son and a terrible liar.


It’s not like this kid has a lot of credibility:

Jonathon Cook, who has a criminal record dating back to when he was 13, was ordered held on $50,000 bail on drug and weapons charges.
George Keches, an attorney who worked with Kathy Jo Cook for 12 years, called the son’s allegations “absurd.”
“I know when she was here, she did everything in the world to help her son, from a mental health perspective. I know he was a troubled young man,” Keches said.

And his attempts to implicate his mom sound like he’s been watching a few too many Steven Soderbergh movies:

On July 31, Cook was shot in the hand during a home invasion that police believe was tied to the drug operation. He told police after his arrest that he waited 30 minutes to call police because his mother ordered him and his stepfather to get rid of the marijuana plants.
He described his mother as “having a fit” and said “they took the five plants out of the closet and burnt them in the fire pit in the back yard,” the police report said.

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Was that before or after George Clooney showed up to fix the situation?
Whether Cook the younger is making it all up or just snitching on his parents, the son of two lawyers should know better than to run his mouth off to the police.
Mass. man: Lawyer parents knew I was drug dealer [AP]
Natick man says parents knew of his drug business [Boston Globe]

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