Original Blog Entry: Pawn shop refuses to pay teacher for school laptop

truesee — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:34:03 GMT

Dec. 30, 2010

DPS says teacher tried to pawn school laptop

NAOMI R. PATTON

Free Press Staff Writer

Detroit Public Schools officials say they have suspended a Durfee Elementary School teacher who allegedly tried to pawn her district-owned laptop computer at one of the biggest, most popular pawnshops in Detroit.

The DPS Office of the Inspector General investigation said Karen Drysdale-Oriucci, a DPS teacher since 1994, went to American Jewelry and Loan on Greenfield Road on Wednesday to pawn the netbook computer she received from the district on Dec. 17.

Store staff refused to pay the teacher for the netbook - which is engraved with the DPS I m In logo on its cover - instead confiscating it and contacting DPS officials.

Drysdale-Oriucci was suspended Thursday with pay, pending a disciplinary hearing.

DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb commended the owners of American Jewelry and Loan for refusing the sale and reporting the teacher to authorities.

Read more: DPS says teacher tried to pawn school laptop | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20101230/NEWS01/101230095/DPS-says-teacher-tried-to-pawn-school-laptop#ixzz1A5YceDJW

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