Pubdate: Sat, 24 Feb 2007
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
Copyright: 2007 Lexington Herald-Leader
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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.
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