Mom accused of planting pot in home of daughter's former friend

A Cranberry mother of three is charged with breaking into the home of one of her daughter’s former friends and allegedly planting marijuana in the home and in the 14-year-old’s backpack.

Traci Pitt was in court Friday and so was Channel 11.

Her alleged plot unraveled when the 14-year-old girl was searched by educators at North Catholic High School and they found a marijuana joint.

"She came in my house and she planted a joint to make it look like it was my daughter," the girl's mother told Channel 11.

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The girl, a ninth-grader, was friends with Pitt's daughter for years, and her mother was friends with Pitt, but things changed a week before Homecoming. Her mother told Channel 11 it was reminiscent of a popular comedy about social mores in high school.

"(Pitt) was mad because her daughter was no longer in this group that they have, which is silly," she said. "It’s a 'Mean Girls' type of thing."

Police say Pitt confessed to trying to frame the 14-year-old to get her expelled from school. She now faces charges for burglary, criminal trespass and drug possession.

The girl did not get in any trouble at school.

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