An Indiana high school teacher was arrested last week after she was allegedly caught with methamphetamine hidden inside her scrunchie during a “Family Fun Night” event at school.
Sarah Duncan, 35, allegedly took a photo during an event at Helfrich Park STEM Academy on Sept. 12 with two students, who then noticed her unusual hair scrunchie inside the photo booth.
“Both juveniles stated that Duncan let his hair down for the photo,” Evansville police officers wrote in a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.
“After the photo, the minors cleaned the area and located a bluish velvet-type scrunchie with a white zipper on the table,” the affidavit continues.
“They noticed that the scrunchie was heavier than a typical scrunchie, opened the zipper bag and observed a glass jar containing a white powdery substance that the two believed to be drugs along with a cut straw containing white powder,” the statement said. sworn declaration.
The students immediately notified another teacher, who told them to throw it in the trash.
That teacher then secured the scrunchie in her classroom and notified the school’s principal and vice principal.
Former eighth grade teacher Sarah Duncan was arrested after she allegedly brought methamphetamine to a school event. Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office
After the event ended around 6 p.m., two janitors saw Duncan “frantically searching for some kind of hair tie.”
Security camera footage taken at the school during the event shows Duncan, who was an eighth-grade teacher, wearing the scrunchie that same night.
A field test for methamphetamine administered into the scrunchie came back positive.
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. While making a third attempt, officers “observed an unauthorized collection container” fall 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 bag/container in his shorts until he provided his second sample,” police wrote in their affidavit.
“Duncan stated that he does not know how or when the bag/container got into his shorts that day. Duncan stated that there may be another one of them at her residence, but that they were not purchased by her, but rather by someone she knows who probably uses them to pass drug tests.”
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. She was released on $1,000 bail.
Duncan was allegedly fired the same day as her arrest, WFIE reported.
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