A second-grade teacher was arrested in California for allegedly driving to school drunk and teaching students while her blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, police shared.
Wendy Munson, 57, was teaching her class at the Nuestro Elementary School on Monday when deputies with the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office arrived at 8:20 a.m, CBS News reported.
The deputies said they had been contacted about a staff member being under the influence, though they did not note who contacted them.
After making contact with Munson, deputies conducted a sobriety test, which she failed, before being placed under arrest.
The sheriff’s office also shared that law enforcement has obtained footage of the teacher driving to school while drunk, The New York Post reported.
A blood-alcohol test was conducted two hours after deputies first approached Munson, and her BAC was still twice that of the legal limit.
The superintendent of the school district sent a letter home to parents about the incident, informing them that she was arrested and escorted from the campus without an incident, the Post reported.
“While we are limited in what we can share as this is both a personnel matter and a matter being investigated by law enforcement, what we can confirm is that a long-term substitute will be in the classroom until further notice,” Superintendent Baljinder Dhillon wrote.
Dhillon went on to say that the safety and well-being of the district’s students was the “highest priority.”
Munson has since been charged with drunk driving, driving with a BAC of 0.08% or higher, and child abuse with the possibility of great bodily injury.