A high school principal from Mississippi has resigned and is facing charges for shoplifting from Walmart, according to reports.
Bay High School principal Amy Yarborough Necaise was charged Aug. 22 with misdemeanor shoplifting, Waveland Police Chief Mike Prendergast said, per The Sea Coast Echo.
“Judge Desmond Hoda signed the warrant,” Prendergast explained.
“Dr. Necaise turned herself in this morning and was released at the department on a $500 cash bond.”
This Friday, the Sun Herald reported that Necaise had been arrested on two more misdemeanor charges and resigned from her post as principal after approximately a decade in the position. It said that she failed to tell the Bay Waveland School District of her arrest. School district policy requires staff to notify the district of arrests within 24 hours.
“Effective immediately, the BWSD Board of Trustees approved the resignation with intent to retire of Dr. Amy Necaise,” said Bay Waveland School Superintendent Sandra Reed after a meeting Friday. “Her accomplishments at Bay High School speak for themselves. I wish her well in future endeavors.”
Fox 8 said that the position has been posted on the school website. Reed previously said Necaise had been offered a job in a newly created position as an academic strategist for the school district, but did not know of the additional arrests at that point, according to the Sun Herald.
According to affidavits from the Waveland Police Department cited by Fox 8, Necaise left a Walmart store on Highway 90 Aug. 20 without paying for $123.66 worth of items. She also allegedly took $25.24 worth of Walmart merchandise without paying Aug. 1 and $51.25 worth of items on Aug. 15.
Per The Sea Coast Echo’s report last month, she was using the self-checkout and some of her items were not scanned in. Prendergast said that Walmart management pressed charges.
“The community has been quite insistent that the school board take action related to Dr. Necaise’s employment with Bay-Waveland Schools, and the authority to take such action does not lie with the school board,” said School Board president Casey Farve. “Licensed educators are afforded exceptional rights as it relates to their employment under Mississippi’s Education Employment Procedures Law.”
Necaise has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, said the Sun Herald.