Boone Teacher Jailed on Pot Charges

A Boone County teacher faces charges of cultivating four marijuana plants at her home.

State police, acting on a tip, discovered the marijuana growing at the home of Mary Messer, 47, in Madison.

In the investigation Messer’s 17-year-old son told police he routinely smoked the pot.

Messer, a special education teacher at Scott High School, was jailed on a charge of child neglect creating risk of injury, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and conspiracy to commit a felony.