TEXT MESSAGES TO TROOPER LEAD TO DRUG CHARGE AGAINST TEACHER

MURRAY - Text messages mistakenly sent to a state trooper led to the
arrest of a Western Kentucky teacher, who is accused of trying to buy
marijuana.

Trooper Trevor Pervine was at dinner with his wife and parents,
celebrating his wife's birthday, when his phone started buzzing.
Pervine was getting text messages about buying marijuana Thursday
night, Kentucky State Police spokesman Barry Meadows said. The person
sending the messages had the wrong number.

[Name redacted], 34, a teacher at Murray Middle School, is accused of
sending the messages and has been charged with conspiracy to traffic
in controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of
marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Meadows said.

Pervine initially thought the messages were from friends playing a
joke, Meadows said. A couple of phone calls put that idea to rest, so
Pervine responded to the messages to set up a meeting, Meadows said.

"Technology got her this time," Meadows said. "She learned her
lesson. Program your dealers into your phone."

[Name redacted] was suspended with pay from her job pending results
of an investigation into the charges, the Murray Independent School
District said in a statement posted yesterday on the district's Web site.