An Oklahoma third grade teacher was arrested last Thursday after a breath tester revealed she had three times the legal blood alcohol concentration during the first day of class at the Intermediate School.
According to a press release from the city of Perkins, officials from Perkins-Tyron school district contacted School Resource Officer Shane Dean about 53-year-old Kimberley S. Coates.
“I noticed Kimberly had red, watery eyes and a thick, slurred speech. Kimberly had a hard time completing sentences,” Dean wrote in the police report cited by the Stillwater News Press. Per the outlet, the school said she was acting “weird” before Coates was reported to the officer at around 3:20 p.m.
Dean determined that Coates was under the influence of alcohol. She said that she drank half a box of wine the night before and stopped drinking at around 3 a.m., according to the police report. School started at around 8:25 a.m.
Additionally, a blue cup was discovered in a bag Coates had in her classroom. Dean said this cup had an alcoholic odor he believed to be wine. He said she told him she drank from it the day before, but not while she was at the school.
“I asked Kimberly again how much she had to drink. Kimberly stated she drank some wine on her way to work this morning. Kimberly denied drinking any this afternoon,” Dean wrote.
Coates was arrested and transported to the Payne County Jail “on the anticipated District Court charge of Public Intoxication,” said Perkins. As of last Friday, official charges had not been filed, according to the Stillwater News Press.
That outlet contacted the school for comment. It said Erica Fox told the News Press that the incident was a “personnel issue,” and the school wouldn’t comment.
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