A Bronx science teacher has senseless beating a student he recruited to help him score $4,000 worth of marijuana after he found out the kid pocketed the cash, police sources said on Friday.
The teacher-Kevin Pope, 48, of V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy in Hunts Point also threatened to sexually assault the student’s mother and confiscated his iphone.
“I will kill you if I don’t get my money!I want my money in a month!” Pope allegedly told the student after pummeling him.
Pope was arrested at the school on Friday morning and charged with assault and robbery, reports NY Post.
Per the website:
Pope had asked students around the school back in June if they knew a drug dealer — and they put him in touch with the teen, who promised he could score a large stash of drugs from his contact in Manhattan, sources said.
Pope gave the kid $4,000 for the hefty purchase, the sources said.
The unidentified teen told cops he met the dealer near Central Park but was told that the quantity of drugs he was seeking would cost $7,000, sources said.
The student then blew off the transaction and spent the money, according to the sources.
Three months later, shortly after the start of the new school year, Pope found the teen about two blocks away from the Lafayette Avenue building and demanded that the money be returned, sources said.
When the student said it was gone, Pope allegedly socked him in the face multiple times and took his iPhone 6, gold chain and wallet containing the boy’s school ID and two MetroCards.