JSO: Man offers Parker student pot near campus

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Terry Parker High School student reported to a school resource officer Friday that a man approached her near school property and offered her marijuana.

According to a police report, the student, whose name has not been released, told the officer that just before 7 a.m. Friday she was on the north side of a fence behind the school, about 5 feet from school property, when a man riding a black or red bicycle approached her and asked her to follow him down the ditch line.

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The student complied and told the officer that she did not feel threatened by the man. She said the man, who is described as a black man, about 6-feet tall and weighing about 120 pounds, offered her marijuana. She said she told him she did not smoke marijuana and turned to walk away.

The student said the man then told her he could get her cigarettes, but she walked away without incident and entered school campus.

The student said the man was wearing a black hoodie and black jeans.

The officer contacted the student's father to report the incident.