COLLEGE HEAD CAUGHT WITH POT

DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa college president caught smoking marijuana with
six-dozen plants growing in his basement and packages of the leafy drug
spread around his home faced drug charges Thursday.

David England, 50, president of Des Moines Area Community College, and his
wife and teenage son and daughter were all accused of crimes ranging from
manufacturing and delivering a narcotic to possession of drug
paraphernalia, police said.

Acting on witness accounts of suspicious activity at England's upscale
home, police raided the house Wednesday where he was found alone with a
lighted marijuana cigarette.

A further search found several pounds of the drug and dozens of small
"starter" plants growing under custom lights in the basement.

England, who was released from jail after posting $5,000 bail, was
suspended with pay from his position, which pays him in excess of $180,000
a year.

England could face 10 years in prison if convicted.