Coke In Classroom Update

Cocaine use costs teacher her license

I want to prove that I am better than that one instance shows,” substitute teacher Joan M. Donatelli said shortly after she was sentenced Wednesday for using cocaine in a Lewiston-Porter classroom.

Donatelli, 59, of Thornwood Drive, will not spend time in jail but must surrender her state teaching license, said Town Justice Thomas J. Sheeran. She could have faced up to 60 days in jail for misdemeanor attempted criminal use of a controlled substance. She accepted the reduced plea April 18.

“I got carried away,” she said in court. “I was blind — almost imprisoned [by the drugs]. Something good has come out of this. I am recovering.”

Donatelli, who retired after 34 years as a district elementary school teacher, was working as a substitute Feb. 1 when two fourth-grade girls sitting near her desk saw her use a pen cap to snort cocaine from a plastic bag.

Another Drug Dealer

Andrea Spoltore, 35, a music teacher at Centennial Public School is alleged to have teamed up with her husband and a soccer Olympian to smuggle drugs in/out of the country. Her husband Ralph Soltore was busted with drugs in his spare tire at the border (seriously, does that really work anymore?) A subsequent raid of their home yielded 3,000 ecstasy pills, 8.5 kilos of pot.

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Drug Story #234235623 (so it seems)

Elementary school teacher Browyn Marie Kugle will lose her home and faces 5 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges. Kugle was arrested after she accepted a package containing 2 pounds of cocaine and nearly a 1000 ecstasy pills. A search of her home led to the discovery of more drugs and a gun.

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He's All Potted Out

Fairfield Teacher Faces Pot Charges

Kenneth George Neubert, 34, of Vacaville faces a felony charge of furnishing marijuana to a minor and a misdemeanor charge of possessing marijuana on school grounds.

His next court appearance is scheduled for July 2.

Fairfield Police arrested Neubert after he allegedly left campus in his car with two 17-year-old senior boys Monday. Police said they stopped at a nearby Starbucks Coffee shop, then while returning to school, smoked marijuana.

The mother of one of the boys spotted her son in the teacher's car and followed them back to the campus. When she confronted her son, police said he told his mother they had been smoking marijuana with Neubert.

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.

Pot

Dover High teacher faces misconduct charges

A Dover High School chemistry teacher was arrested this morning in connection with an incident last month where he reportedly forced a student to drive him to a spot in Dover so he could buy some marijuana.

Dover police charged Damon Bethel, 36, of Smyrna, with coercion and official misconduct. Bail was set at $1,000, police said.

The alleged incident occurred April 21 when the teacher approached one of his students in the early morning hours while he was filling his car up with gas and asked for a ride. The student refused.

The teacher then threatened to fail the student in class if he didn't give him a ride, acccording to court records.

Drugs from Student

Police: Teacher May Have Bought Drugs From Student

A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave, while police and school administrators investigate a possible drug deal at school.

Zion Police Chief Larry Booth said his department is investigating an incident where a Zion-Benton Township High School teacher allegedly purchased drugs from a student.

Booth could not comment on the incident, saying only that is was an ongoing investigation. No charges have been filed.

Stripping and Drugs

Cobb Teacher Arrested In Strip Club Raid

A woman who told police she is a Cobb County teacher was one of several women arrested dancing at a strip club in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Police say they arrested Marquita Jett at Club Coffee last weekend. She told police she is a teacher at a school in Kennesaw.

Officers also arrested Quintana Coleman of Marietta during the raid.

Both women are facing drug charges.

Detectives say they confiscated drugs, counterfeit money and guns at the club.

One of the women arrested was just 15-years old.

Ecstasy, LSD & Marijuana

Bellefontaine Teacher, Roommate Facing Drug Charges

A Bellefontaine middle school teacher will appear in court on Tuesday morning to face drug charges.

Officers said the woman and her roommate had more than $5,000 worth of illegal drugs in their apartment.

Reagan Henry, 23, is a special-education teacher at Bellefontaine Middle School. Her roommate is 19-year-old Danielle Garza.

Detectives said they found Ecstasy, LSD, and marijuana inside the apartment. Police said Henry and Garza were arrested on two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance.

Investigators said they do not believe any drugs were taken into the school. Henry has been placed on administrative leave from her teaching job.

Even more drugs

Elysian Fields teacher resigns after arrest for drug possession

An Elysian Fields elementary teacher has submitted her resignation after she was arrested in Rusk County for possession of a controlled substance.

"There was no opportunity to fire her," Dr. Bob Browning school district superintendent said Wednesday. "She submitted her resignation as of Monday morning."

Melanie Lynn McGuigan, 34, along with Ricky Lee Anderson, 30, was arrested at 10 p.m. Friday night on Rusk County Road 2183, said Precinct 5 Justice of the Peace Bob Richardson.
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Both gave their address as 418 Webb Rogers Road, in Harrison County.

The JP said an officer stopped the vehicle in which the two were traveling for traffic violations of not signaling within a required distance and for having an obstructed license plate.

When the officer ran a check of personal information on the two, there was "a hit on Anderson," Richardson said, adding there were two outstanding Harrison County warrants against him.

A spokeswoman from Harrison County's criminal investigation division said the local warrants were for theft by check.

When asked by the arresting officer for permission to search the vehicle, Anderson denied consent, the JP said, which gave K-9 Officer Kenneth Biggs the right to use his drug dog on the vehicle. Richardson said the officer's report noted Anderson "was acting real nervous.

"The canine alerted on weighing scales and a small plastic bag with methamphetamine residue" in Ms. McGuigan's purse, Richardson said the officer wrote.

"Anderson then advised he was in possession of methamphetamine," Richardson said, and a search of his person turned up another plastic bag containing almost 15 grams of the substance.

Cocaine

Cocaine-sniffing teacher takes plea deal

A retired Lewiston-Porter teacher, charged with snorting cocaine from a pen cap in front of students while working as a substitute teacher, accepted a plea deal Wednesday in Lewiston Town Court.

Joan M. Donatelli, 59, of Lewiston, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree in front of Town Justice Thomas J. Sheeran. Two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and more severe criminal possession charges were dropped in the plea deal, offered by the Niagara County district attorney’s office.

Donatelli had been charged Feb. 1 after two fourth-grade girls, who were sitting near her desk, said they saw her using a pen cap to snort cocaine from a plastic bag at her desk.

Pill Shoppin

Local Teacher Accused Of Prescription Fraud

A Millersville teacher and her husband are accused of prescription fraud in Hendersonville.

Police said Susan and Aiman Alchalah are accused of doctor shopping.

Officials said they got prescriptions from several different doctors and then filled them at different pharmacies.

Susan Alchalah is a kindergarten teacher at Millersville Elementary.

She has been suspended without pay.

Drug Charges

Police: Local Teacher Arrested On Drug Charges

A seventh-grade teacher was arrested over the weekend in Dearborn.

Police said Karry Bazzi, a teacher at Lowrey Elementary School in Dearborn, has been charged with felony posession of narcotics.

Detectives said they found ectasy, marijuana and methamphetamine on her.

She was released from jail on a $500 cash bond.

Oldie but a goody

Text message leads to teacher's arrest

It's a tough lesson for a Kentucky middle school teacher. State police say she sent text messages looking for marijuana to a state trooper instead of a drug dealer.
The trooper was at a birthday dinner when his phone started buzzing with messages about a pot purchase.

Police spokesman Barry Meadows says the trooper thought it was a joke at first, but realized it wasn't after a few phone calls. So he set up a meeting with Ann Greenfield.

Pill Poppin' Bus Driver

Cops: Bus driver bought drugs from a student

A Northeastern Transit Inc. bus driver faces charges of buying prescription drugs several times last month from a 16-year-old student he drove daily to an alternative school in South Scranton.

Robert W. Griffith, 67, of 3901 Wylam Ave., Moosic, told investigators he never used the medications he bought from the boy, whom he said he felt sorry for and was trying to impress the teenager as “a big guy,” police said.

The boy told police Mr. Griffith asked him in February to find him drugs. Over the course of the month, the driver allegedly paid him numerous times for Xanax and Seroquel that the boy took from his mother. Xanax is an anti-anxiety drug; Seroquel is used to treat bipolar disorder.

More Drugs

Special education teacher arrested on drug charges

Parent Omaira Zaman said, "It is scary because all the kids are here."

Parents with children who attend Carroll Hill Elementary School are concerned after special education teacher -- 54-year-old Doris Kurick -- was arrested by Troy police for felony possession of marijuana after an anonymous tip.

Idiot...

High school janitor arrested for selling heroin

A high school janitor was arrested Thursday night for selling high grade heroin to an undercover detective on school property.

Ricardo Rivera, 31, worked as a janitor at Lehigh Senior High School.

Detectives say they got a tip that he was a mid to upper level heroin and cocaine dealer so they set up two deals.

During the second deal, Rivera and an alleged accomplice - 30-year-old Carlos Manuel Rodriguez - tried to sell more than 255 grams of heroin to the undercover officer.