The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is Andrea Kozlowski. She gets the award for trying to enter the Martin County Courthouse yesterday. With a pipe full of marijuana stashed in her purse.

Why not just put a sign around your head Ms. Kozlowski saying- I'm breaking the law. For bringing her stupidity to court, Andrea Kozlowski is today's Knucklehead of the day.

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STUART — Andrea Kozlowski almost made it through the entrance of the Martin County Courthouse Monday afternoon.

If only it weren't for the pipe full of marijuana stashed inside her cute black rectangle purse.

Martin County sheriff's deputy Paula Neild thought the pipe was a weapon when she saw it on the X-ray machine. She asked Kozlowski, 29, if she could look inside her purse. Kozlowski, who was visiting the courthouse to file some paperwork, agreed.

"My main concern is to look for something that would hurt someone in here," said Neild, who has worked in the courthouse since June. "I never expected that."

Neild pulled the pipe out of the purse and said it was full of "a leafy green substance." Sheriff's deputies said a field test concluded that the green stuff was marijuana.

Neild arrested Kozlowski for possession of drug paraphernalia. She was being held at the Martin County jail Monday afternoon.

Signs near the front of the courthouse entrances warn people that everything they carry into the building is subject to search, but this is not the first time someone has tried to enter the building with drugs.

A Palm Beach Gardens man was arrested in 2003 after deputies said he tried to walk into the courthouse with a tin full of marijuana on his way to get a passport.