Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Center Valley, PENNSYLVANIA

ARRESTED: June 26, 2007 - Katie Quartuch, 26, a Southern Lehigh High School social studies teacher, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, obstructing the administration of law, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

She was arrested in a local restaurant.

Kimock said an off-duty police officer was acting as a security guard for the restaurant and tried to make two men leave. An on-duty police officer arrived, and when the two men did not leave, began to arrest one of them.

Kimock said Quartuch then attacked one of the officers, hitting him in the chest with both hands and her purse. The officer wrestled Quartuch to the floor, Kimock said, and while she was down, Quartuch kicked the other officer in the groin.

Quartuch's husband, Matthew Quartuch, 32, was cited for disorderly conduct, Kimock said. (He was not one of the two men the officer tried to evict from the restaurant.)
Lovely.
August 29 - Quartuch's husband will perform 20 hours of community service and prosecutors will drop the charge. Katie Quartuch will have her case move on to Northampton County Court. No date was given.