Cops: Teacher Blew Student Activity Cash on Penny Slots

Photo Credit: Macomb County Sheriff's Office

Last year, Lydia Johnson is said to have blown $90,000 at the MGM Grand Detroit casino, which would be a lot of your own money to lose, let alone someone else's. And a chunk of it was allegedly someone else's. Macomb County authorities say the 29-year-old Dakota High School teacher handled cash as the student activity coordinator. 

Based on 2016 homecoming dance attendance records, school officials and authorities say $30,000 or so should have come in, yet the the Detroit Free Press reports Johnson only deposited $11,000 into the school's homecoming account. Prosecutor Eric Smith said in a release that empty envelopes believed to have held homecoming cash were found in her classroom, with casino receipts nearby. Meanwhile, Johnson deposited just $500 for a student-parent trip to Tamarack Camps that should have brought in about $13,000.

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