FOUNDER OF ANTI-DRUG PROGRAM IS HELD IN DRUG STING

Kendall Craig Farris, who heads the Over the Wall Foundation in Marina
del Rey, is arrested after an undercover Redondo Beach officer is sold
fake methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets.

Kendall Craig Farris' website is filled with influential endorsements
for the drug prevention program he founded. Los Angeles City
Councilman Bill Rosendahl called them "amazing tools which our schools
and communities desperately need" and thanked Farris for meeting with
him and his staff.

Something went wrong, however, and Farris was arrested Thursday at a
Starbucks in El Segundo after Redondo Beach police set up a drug buy
over the phone.

Farris, 47, arrived at the coffeehouse in a taxi, police said. An
undercover officer gave him an envelope containing $480 in exchange
for methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets, which turned out to be fake,
authorities said. Farris was arrested at 3:40 p.m.

Farris was arraigned Friday on charges of selling a substance that he
alleged was drugs. He is being held on $106,500 bail and could not be
reached for comment.

Farris, according to his website, was founder of the Over the Wall
Foundation in Marina del Rey and a recovering alcoholic and addict.
His mission, he says, is "to help youth, schools, and families prevent
drug and alcohol abuse before it starts, and intervene in any drug
abuse which may already have begun."

He is the author of "Drugs, Kids and Crime: Surviving Our Drug
Obsessed Culture."