9 Failed Drug Tests Finally Land Preschool Director in Jail

063009caine.jpg After testing positive for cocaine use nine times while out on bail, former preschool director Andy Lewis has finally exhausted the patience of a Federal judge. Lewis, whose Brooklyn Children's Academy was shut down last year after parents discovered exposed wires, unpainted walls and noxious fumes in the building, is charged with stealing more than $500,000 in government funding intended for free meals for poor youths at his Better Brooklyn Community Center. But where, pray tell, could all that money have gone?! According to court papers from April obtained by the Daily News, Lewis blamed the test results on a cocaine-laced cigarette someone gave him. But Judge Kiyo Matsumoto wouldn't be fooled again, and said she felt "ridiculous" for giving Lewis so many chances. (His lawyer unsuccessfully argued that his client should remain free because he had passed nearly twice as many tests as he had failed.) When Judge Matsumoto told Lewis he would be incarcerated, the defendent reportedly cried, "Oh, my God, I can't go to jail! I beg of you! God Almighty! Please, your honor, reconsider!"

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Wee little students, hungry in the corner, with no shoes and clothes...
I-say where did all the money go? Right up Andy's nose!

"Oh, my God, I can't go to jail! I beg of you! God Almighty! Please, your honor, reconsider!"

To which the judge responded, "You ride the rail, you go to jail...bitch."

"Oh, my God, I can't go to jail! I beg of you! God Almighty! Please, your honor, reconsider!"

Maybe Sharpton can help him.

Sharpton doesn't take obviously guilty people, don't insult him like that.

"Oh, my God, I can't go to jail! I beg of you! God Almighty! Please, your honor, reconsider!"

After reflecting on the individual for a moment or two, the judge responded. "You are correct in that I should reconsider your case. I was going to give you five to ten and now I am going to give you fifteen to twenty. Next case."

Idiot, what did he think was going to happen? That cocaine cigarette story wasn't going to work forever

cocaine cigarettes? pfff. the bubblegum ones are much better.

"Oh, my God, I can't go to jail! I beg of you! God Almighty! Please, your honor, reconsider!"

This is just Drama. I know this person and he is all of what he's been accused as far as "Drug Problems" and "Major Anger Issues" which I guess resulted in other things. God bless him - I hope he learns a lesson from this.

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