JAY – Jay police and a Franklin County deputy and his police dog trained in drug-detection scanned the vehicles in the Jay High School parking lot Friday and identified one car that could have drugs in it, school Superintendent Robert Wall said.

“Out of all the vehicles parked in our parking lots that was the only one that the dog indicated had drugs in it, and we followed up on it,” Wall said. A small remnant of a roach paper was found in the car, Wall said. Administrators followed up with the student who had brought the vehicle to school, but could not say what action was taken.

Wall urged that the community to understand that the scans are an effort to identify if there is a problem with substance abuse at the school. “We feel this is important,” he said.

Deputy David Rackliffe and his dog, Odin, performed the scan with Jay police.

The dogs are extremely sensitive so if there were drugs in the vehicles, they would find them, Wall said. The dog was allowed only to sniff the outside of the vehicles, he said.

In February, the school conducted a surprise inspection of lockers. That scan found no evidence of drugs, Wall and Jay Police Chief Larry White Sr. said earlier.