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Parents facing drug charges

Police: Pair, son all smoking pot

ADAMS TWP — An Allegheny County couple is accused of driving while smoking marijuana with their 16-year-old son in the car. The boy also was smoking marijuana.

The suspects, Allen M. Ordons, 55, and Janet J. Ordons, 54, both of Leetsdale, face hearings in the case next week.

Township police about 11 p.m. Saturday pulled Allen Ordons over on Route 228 after officers saw his car repeatedly cross over the white fog line and the double yellow line near Brickyard Road, according to court documents.

Patrolman Edward Lenz said as soon as he got to the car he smelled “a strong odor of burnt marijuana” coming from it, a police affidavit said.

Janet Ordons was in the back seat and the couple’s son was in the front passenger seat.

All three admitted they had been smoking marijuana, Lenz said.

The officer, while inspecting the car, turned up a plastic bag containing a small suspected marijuana cigarette.

Allen Ordons was arrested for suspicion of drugged driving after failing field sobriety tests.

Later, police found under the driver’s seat a pill bottle containing two and a half tablets of the anxiety drug Xanax and a half tablet of the narcotic buprenorphine.

Officers searched Janet Ordons’ purse and found a portion of a straw that is commonly used to snort drugs, Lenz said. Inside the straw, he noted, was a “powdery residue.”

Allen Ordons is charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, corruption of a minor, child endangerment, possession of a controlled substance and disregarding traffic lanes.

Janet Ordons is charged with corruption of a minor, child endangerment and possession of a controlled substance.

Both suspects face preliminary hearings at 9:05 a.m. Tuesday at District Judge Wayne Seibel’s office in Evans City.

Township Police Chief Bill Westerman said Thursday that he did not know if the defendants’ son would be charged.

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