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Troopers charge teacher with forging student emergency contact information for early checkouts

PRINCETON, W.Va. — A Princeton High School teacher is free on bond after being charged with fraudulently listing herself on a student’s emergency contact information.

State police troopers said Katelyn Lester, 36, of Lerona, falsified the document so she could check a student out of school. She did so multiple times, troopers said.

Troopers said Lester also “allegedly forged the student’s mother’s signature on a permission slip for an out-of-state field trip.”

Lester is charged with four counts of forgery and uttering and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

She was arraigned Thursday in Mercer County Magistrate Court and released on bond.

The investigation into the case began last November.





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