A Bossier Parish elementary school teacher has been arrested for stealing prescription medications.

39-year-old Robyn Edmonds of Benton and a teacher at Princeton Elementary School, was arrested by the Bossier Sheriff’s Office Monday afternoon and charged with simple theft and possession of a Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance for stealing prescription medication from another teacher.

Edmonds has admitted stealing the prescription medication from the purse of the other teacher on the morning of Dec. 4.  School had not yet started for the day and no students were present at the time.

Edmonds was booked into the Bossier Maximum Security Facility. She has been placed on leave pending further administrative actions, according to Bossier Parish School officials.

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