Teen Allegedly Beat Up And Robbed By Bronx Teacher For Stiffing Him On Pot Deal

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Teen Allegedly Beat Up And Robbed By Bronx Teacher For Stiffing Him On Pot Deal

BY REBECCA FISHBEIN IN NEWS ON SEP 24, 2016 1:50 PM

 

A 16-year-old Bronx charter school student was allegedly beaten and robbed by his science teacher after he kept $4K the teacher gave him to buy marijuana.

Kevin Pope, 48, who teaches at the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy in Hunts Point, was arrested yesterday for allegedly attacking the unidentified teen on Wednesday. Pope had apparently asked students to find him a dealer to sell him a pound of pot, and the teen told him he'd make the deal for him. The teen told cops he spent the money instead, after finding out the pound would have cost $7K; he says when Pope found out three months later, he accosted him a few blocks from the school and hit him in the face several times.

Pope also allegedly "threatened to have him beat up again and have his mother sexually ­assaulted," according to the Post, and told him, "I will kill you if I don’t get my money!" The teen says Pope took his gold chain, iPhone and wallet as compensation for the lost cash.

Pope was charged with assault and robbery.

 

 

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A Bronx charter-school teacher recruited a student to help him score $4,000 worth of marijuana — and he beat the teen senseless when he found out the kid pocketed the cash, police sources said Friday.

Kevin Pope, 48, also stole the teen’s iPhone and wallet and threatened to sexually assault his mother if he didn’t get his money back, the sources said.

“I will kill you if I don’t get my money!” Pope allegedly told the student after pummeling him. “I want my money in a month!”

Pope, a science teacher at the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy in Hunts Point, was arrested at the school Friday morning and charged with assault and robbery in the attack a day earlier.

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.

A source said that Pope “threatened to have him beat up again and have his mother sexually ­assaulted.”

The student needed three surgical staples to close gashes in the back of his head, sources said.

Sources said the incident is on surveillance video.

The student attends Pope’s school, but it’s unclear if the teen was in that teacher’s class.

A Department of Education spokeswoman directed all questions to the charter school, which declined to comment.

Pope was awaiting arraignment at Bronx Criminal Court on Friday night.

Additional reporting by Kenneth Garger

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