Physics Teacher Mary C. Steck Arrested for Buying Heroin During Lunch Period, Returns to School

Is that dedication or stupidity? According to cops, Mary C. Steck, a physics teacher at Pittsburgh Perry High School left the school during the day and was caught in a drug buying sting. After being charged, she then returned to school as if nothing happened to teacher her classes . . . without the heroin, apparently. Wonder if that took the edge off her teaching style? Eventually the cops, realizing Steck was a teacher, notified the school. Here's more from the Post-Gazette:

Mary C. Steck, 51, of the North Side, a Perry teacher for about 12 years, was charged with possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. Police who pulled over her sport utility vehicle said they found a syringe protruding from her purse and two "stamp bags" of suspected drugs inside.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools suspended Ms. Steck with pay and took a drug-sniffing dog through her classroom, but no drugs were found there, district spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said. Ms. Steck's salary is about $72,000, representing top-scale pay for a city teacher with a bachelor's degree.
A passenger in the SUV, Roger A. Bushell, 45, who shares a Baytree Street address with Ms. Steck, was charged with possession of suspected crack cocaine. Mr. Bushell is not a school district employee.
In an affidavit, city Detective Michael Molitaris gave this account:
Police had the 2300 block of Atmore Street on the North Side under surveillance Wednesday, after a resident complained that young men posing as candy sellers were peddling drugs instead. Ms. Steck drove to Atmore about 1:10 p.m., and Mr. Bushell got out and approached a male who had been observed loitering on the street. Mr. Bushell counted out money, handed it to the other person and accepted "small white objects" in return. The SUV drove away. Detective Molitaris radioed to other detectives, who stopped Ms. Steck's vehicle in the 800 block of Marshall Avenue.
One detective asked Ms. Steck to step out of the vehicle, noticed the syringe and asked whether she had other needles in the purse. "No, just stamp bags," she replied, pointing at a paper towel folded inside the purse. The bags of suspected heroin were marked "Blade."
Mr. Bushell dropped a small plastic bowl as he got out of the SUV. It contained suspected crack cocaine. Police did not take the pair into custody, and Ms. Steck returned to Perry, on the North Side, to finish the school day. Ms. Steck had told the detectives that she was a teacher, however, and police notified the school district.
School officials summoned Ms. Steck to the office with about five minutes left in the day, ordered her to leave and told her not to return yesterday, Ms. Pugh said.

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Teacher Janmattie Singh Accused of Having Sex With Male Student, 15, AND His Two 18-Year-Old Cousins - Richmond Hill High

A Queens, New York, high school teacher is in trouble with the law after allegedly having sex with not one, but THREE young males, a 15-year-old males student and--according to reports--his twin 18-year-old cousins. Now THAT'S being thorough! At right, the mug shot picture of teacher Janmattie Singh, 22. Here's more from NY1:

A Queens high school teacher was arrested today on charges of statutory rape, after officials say she had sex with a teenaged student.
Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon says Janmattie Singh, 22, is also facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Singh is an English teacher at Richmond Hill High School. Investigators say she had sex with a 15-year-old male student, and two of his family members.
Officials say the encounter took place off school grounds -- at a location in Brooklyn. The Department of Education says Singh has been on medical leave since November, and that her name has now been placed on the ineligible list -- meaning she can never work for the city again.

(Janmatty Sing, Janmatie Sinhg)

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Teacher Alex Diaz, 37, Caught in Back Seat of Car With Girl, 17 - Bell High School

The old "I can't afford a motel room on a teacher's salary" ploy. Or maybe they just couldn't wait through that lengthy registration process they make you go through anymore. Either way, Bell High School (California) teacher Alex Diaz, 37, will likely NOT be around many underage girls in the future after he was caught in the back seat of a car in a parking lot with a female student. Here's more from the LA Times:

A Los Angeles Unified School District teacher has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a female student who was underage at the time, sheriff's officials said today.
Alex Diaz, 37, a Bell High School teacher, was booked May 22 at the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department station in Carson on suspicion of having sex with a minor, authorities said. He was held in lieu of $20,000 bail before immediately posting bond.
The girl, who turned 18 this week, was 17 at the time of the alleged crime, said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department.
About 10 p.m. on May 21, sheriff's deputies found Diaz and the girl in the back seat of a car in a parking lot in Carson, Whitmore said. He declined to give further details, except to confirm that Diaz, who was found with a Bell High staff identification card, was later arrested.

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Bad Chaperone? Woman Arrested for Being Drunk on Field Trip - Banning High School

Why didn't we have field trips like this when I was in school. Oh yeah, I know, because the chaperones would have been arrested for getting themselves (and some of us) drunk on the ride home! Which, it appears, is exactly what happened to a busload of students from Banning High School in California. How did it happen? Well, it was the Spanish Club and apparently no one realized what a bad idea it would be to visit a tequila factory. (Just joking . . . we think.) On the bonus side, it appears that this is not the first time this school employee (she works in the attendance office, whatever that is) has previously been arrested for DUI and they still let her drive a bus load of kids somewhere. Wait, do you smell something? I smell a brewing lawsuit, don't you? The good news: so far now one has accused her of having sex with any of the kids . . . at least that anyone is sober enough to remember. Here's more from the Press Enterprise:

A Banning High School employee chaperoning a club field trip Friday was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, police said Tuesday. Banning police arrested Beaumont resident Lisa Racquel Arellanes, 32, after school buses returned from a trip to San Diego.

Police received a call at 8:52 p.m. that a bus was returning to campus with a school employee and an unknown number of students who possibly were intoxicated, a police report shows. When the three buses arrived, police determined that Arellanes, who police said works in the school's attendance office, was intoxicated and arrested her. She was booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, authorities said. In 2007, Arellanes pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher, records show.

Arellanes is on leave pending the results of the district's investigation, said Banning Unified School District Superintendent Lynne Kennedy. Fourteen students admitted drinking, but the source of the alcohol is unclear, police Lt. Mike West said. West said the alcohol involved was vodka and a margarita mix.

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