Charlene Schmitz

Teacher, 54, charged with having sex with boy, 14

A 54-year-old Washington County teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy who attended one of her classes has been charged with second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy, authorities said today.

Officers arrested Charlene Schmitz of Carson Road in Leroy on Friday after the boy's mother approached authorities with a stack of sexually explicit e-mails she claimed the Leroy High School teacher sent to her son, said Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer.

"We questioned witnesses, and the boy confessed to what was going on," Stringer said. "He said it had been happening since April, mostly at her residence."

Oxy Peddler

Local HS Teacher Accused Of Selling Drugs

State police arrested a Washington County high school teacher for allegedly selling drugs in the parking lot of local fast food restaurant.

Bethlehem-Center High School teacher Shawn Bellicini, 32, of Fallowfield Township, is accused of selling more than $600 worth of the powerful painkiller oxycontin to an undercover informant yesterday afternoon in a Burger King parking lot in Bentleyville.

According to state police, Bellicini sold 10 of the pills to an informant for $620 while a trooper watched the entire transaction.