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Man Facing Drug Charge Was Mentor To Students
Indianapolis Star | 01/19/2006

An instructor in an after-school program that helped Indianapolis children avoid drugs has been charged with possessing marijuana.

Erwin Golden, 25, was carrying 18 1-ounce bags of marijuana when an officer stopped him for speeding Jan. 12, according to an Indianapolis Police Department report.

Before the arrest, Golden worked part time as a life-skills instructor in an after-school program at Marshall Middle School, where his duties included warning students of the dangers of drugs.

Nothing in the police report indicates Golden was selling drugs at the school.

Principal Jamyce Banks said Golden is barred from school property.

"We cannot have him here on campus until those issues have been resolved," Banks said.

The after-school tutoring and mentoring program is a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis and the YMCA, Banks said. Golden worked under a contract and was not employed by the school system.

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