Teacher Caught Stealing Student's Prescription Drugs Now Working at Smyrna's Stewartsboro Elementary

SMYRNA, TN — A teacher who was caught on camera stealing drugs from the nurse's office at Eagleville Elementary has been reassigned to work at Stewartsboro Elementary in Smyrna.

Jessica Holland was arrested by Rutherford County narcotics detectives at Eagleville Elementary, where she taught first grade, in October. She was charged with theft and simple possession of Adderall and immediately suspended by Rutherford County Schools.

Surveillance cameras installed after the nurse suspected pills were being stolen caught Holland entering the office, opening a cabinet, rifling through pill bottles and dumping a several Adderall pills into her hand.

Rutherford County Schools spokesman James Evans told the Daily News Journal that Holland was suspended for two months without pay, but the charges were retired and the state did not seek a revocation of her teaching license, thus she was reassigned to the Smyrna elementary school where she works as an "overflow teacher."

"As an overflow teacher, it means she doesn’t have her own home class of students. Instead, she works daily in other teachers’ classrooms to help with smaller groups of students," Evans told the paper.

Image via Rutherford County Sheriff's Department