Former Principal pleads guilty to theft of student drugs
From Sunshine Review
September 16, 2009 Former Fremont City School District elementary school principal pleaded guilty to two felony charges, now facing up to six years in prison for stealing students’ prescriptions. [1]
[edit] Tampering and theft
In Sandusky County, Ohio Common Pleas Court on September 15, 2009, Timothy Wilhelm, 43, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and theft. He is required to pay restitution to replace stolen student medications and is ordered to stay 500 feet from the school, Stamm Elementary.
“It was my impression Wilhelm wanted to get this done,” Assistant Sandusky County Prosecutor Beth Tischler said. “(He seemed) remorseful, he seemed to have accepted what he did.”
Tischler said the prosecution will not recommend a sentence.
Wilhelm’s resigned September 5 and it was announced three days later at a Fremont City School Board meeting.[1]
[edit] Charged
Wilhelm was on paid, with health benefits, administrative leave since February 12, the day he was charged and confessed he took students’ drugs.
“It was obviously a very lengthy investigation,” Fremont police Sgt. T.J. Woolf said. “The case was worked very intensely. ... It worked out the way it should have worked out.”
A grand jury indicted Wilhelm March 9 on three counts of theft of drugs, three counts of breaking and entering, three counts of safecracking and one count each of tampering with evidence, falsification and theft in office.
The indictment posed that Wilhelm stole students' Adderall and Ritalin from a secured medicine cabinet inside the school, both of which are used in treating attention deficit disorder.
Wilhelm then rearranged the scene to make it look as if someone had broken-in reported it to police. Wilhelm stole like this three times during 2008: September 12, October 20 and Decemeber 19.
Over the summer the district hired Shannon Turner to take over the principal duties until July 21, 2010.[1]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ex-principal guilty of stealing kids' drugs," Port Clinton News Herald, September 16, 2009
| |||||||
