Idaho AG spokesman resigns after police find marijuana in airport luggage

Todd Dvorak, the spokesman for the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, left his position Wednesday after being charged in Lewiston with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

He has pleaded innocent to the charge and retained Lewiston attorney Charles Stroschein to represent him.

Dvorak could not immediately be reached for comment.

Lewiston police officers were called to the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport at 5:20 a.m. Friday after airport security officials checking luggage found “a green leafy substance” in a bag belonging to Dvorak, who was leaving on the morning flight to Boise, according to court records.

The material was packaged in a commercial baggie from Green Junky Farms, a Spokane marijuana distributor, and was labeled as Pineapple, an Indica Dominant Hybrid. The package contained the warning, “This product may be unlawful outside Washington state,” according to court records.

Dvorak worked for many years as a journalist with the Associated Press and was the agency’s Boise bureau chief prior to taking the position as communications director with the attorney general’s office in 2014.