Permian students arrested on drug charges

District police were a presence in many classrooms at Permian High School on Thursday as several students were pulled from class and four arrested following drug related accusations.

Brandon Alex Beene, 17, and Celeen Alysson Solis, 17, were charged with felony drug possession. Hollis Hudgens, 18, and Jordan Leake, 18, were charged on misdemeanor drug charges. All four were released on bond by Friday.

The arresting agency for each was given as ECISD police. ECISD officials said police arrested all four students during the school day and booked them into the county’s adult detention center.

 The county’s youth detention center said they didn't receive any minor-age Permian students Thursday on drug charges.

Officials said late Friday that because it was an ongoing investigation, nothing further would be released at this time. Information about the arrests, including which drugs specifically and their amount that students were accused of possessing, was also not released because the arrest reports weren’t finished Friday, district officials said.

However, friends of Beene talked openly about the nature of his and others’ arrests on social media websites.

According to the Permian High School students online, multiple students were taken out a class to be questioned. Student’s said Beene’s phone was taken from him and anyone in his phone he was sending texts to was also brought in for questioning. The illicit substances involved in Beene’s arrest were described as prescription drugs, which is consistent with the penalty group 3 classification.

Students and a news release said a tip came through an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip. Students described witnessing students being pulled from class for questioning but not returning.

Brandy Hooser, who identified herself as Beene’s mother, said on the Odessa American Facebook page that he was a good kid who made a bad choice, but she said she had not see the arrest coming.

“I'm a very nosey parent & I honestly NEVER saw any signs or had any idea,” Hooser wrote.

Of the four, Leake is likely most well-known to the community as a defensive standout for the Permian Panthers football team during the past season. However, this wasn’t Leake’s first time to be accused of drug possession.

In a previous story in the Odessa American, Leake said he was caught in spring 2011 with a group of friends who brought a controlled substance into his vehicle on Henderson ISD grounds when he was a student at the 3A high school.

“I was with some friends, and they ended up ditching some stuff in my car,” Leake said in an August interview. “I ended up having to take the blame because it was my vehicle, and it was on school grounds, so the school got involved.”

Leake said then that he still did not know what the substance was.

“They had some kind of drugs,” Leake said in the story. “I don’t really know. I ended up not even getting to see what happened. I went to school the next day, and they told me I had alternative school. I thought my friends would say it was theirs, but I guess that’s the way the world works these days.”

Leake was removed from the football team in Henderson, where his senior year eligibility was in doubt, but his father lost his job there and got one in Odessa, allowing Leake to play football at Permian after a District 3-5A committee ruling.

The move turned out well. Leake was an outside linebacker for the 2011 football team, a first-team All-District 3-5A selection who finished the regular season with 100 tackles, one sack and one interception. He led the team with five tackles for loss and three forced fumbles, helping Permian reach the playoffs.

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