An Indiana high school teacher was arrested last week after she was allegedly caught with drugs hidden in her hair during a “Family Fun Night” event at the school.
Sarah Duncan, 35, was allegedly photographed during an event at Helfrich Park STEM Academy on September 12 with two students – who noticed her unusually disheveled hair afterwards in the photo booth.
“Both juveniles stated that Duncan let his hair down for the photo,” Evansville police officials wrote in a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.
“After the picture, the juvenile cleaned up the area and found a blue velvet scarf with a white zipper on the table,” the affidavit continued.
“They realized the scrunchie was heavier than a normal scrunchie, they opened the zipped bag and observed a glass bottle containing a white powdery substance both believed to be drugs along with a straw cut with white powder,” the affidavit reads.
The student immediately told another teacher, who ordered them to throw it in the trash.
The teacher then secured the scrunchie in her classroom and notified the school’s principal and assistant principal.
Former eighth grade teacher Sarah Duncan was arrested after she was accused of bringing drugs to a school event. Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office
After the event ended at about 6 p.m., Duncan was seen by two janitors “fidgeting around looking for some kind of hair tie.”
Security camera footage taken at the school during the event showed Duncan, who is an eighth-grade teacher, wearing a scrunchie earlier that night.
A field test for methamphetamine given on the scrunchie came back positive.
A few days later, the school’s deputy chief of staff and Evansville Police Chief Tim Alford went with Duncan to a nearby clinic so he could take a drug test.
His first two urine samples were too small and did not “reach the temperature for testing,” police said. As he made his third attempt, the officer “observed an unauthorized collection container” falling out of his shorts.
The teacher was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail last Wednesday. Helfrich Park STEM Academy/Facebook
“Duncan stated that he did not notice the pouch/container in his shorts until after he provided the second sample,” police wrote in their affidavit.
“Duncan stated that he did not know how or when the pouch/container got into his shorts that day. Duncan stated that there may have been another one of them at his residence but they were not purchased by him, but by someone he knew who may have used them to pass a drug test.”
The teacher was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail last Wednesday on one count of criminal possession and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released on $1,000 bond.
Duncan was allegedly fired the same day as his arrest, WFIE reported.
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