Sentenced to 18 months for stealing student medications.
Jan 9, 2007 - Melba Polston, 39, was arrested after she did not show up for a court hearing. She is charged with possession of a controlled substance within 2-thousand feet of a school and with tampering with a security camera or system.
Polston was suspended from a Muskogee elementary school Nov 1, 2006 after an investigation into missing student prescriptions. The school board is set (Jan 9) to dismiss her.
Polston worked with a program that benefits elementary-age children who are in disciplinary trouble.Last November, school leaders discovered some students' prescriptions were missing. "That process has both the parent and the person receiving the medication both signing off that the count is correct and that’s when a red flag went up, when there was not enough pills for the child in that particular case," said [Muskogee Superintendent Mike] Garde.
Feb 27 - A due process hearing has been scheduled for Feb 27 to discuss and vote on dismissal of an elementary teacher who had been charged with possession of a controlled substance.
SENTENCED: July 21 - After pleading no contest, Polston was given an 18-month deferred sentence, meaning that her record will be expunged at some later date. The tampering with a security camera charge was dismissed as part of the plea.
