The Marion County, Florida Sheriff’s Office arrested 49-year-old Steven T. Simmons this afternoon around 4 p.m. Simmons is a teacher at North Marion High School.
Over the past few years students have made reports of thefts from the lockers. Thus far police and the administration have not been able to figure it out so an enterprising student decided to catch it on video today. He managed to use his cell phone to catch Coach Simmons going through the lockers.
After questioning by the school resource officer (and confronted with the video) Simmons admitted to stealing money from the lockers for a couple of years. He admitted to having taken more than $400 just this school year alone.
Simmons has been charged with Grand Theft and was lodged in the Marion County Jail on $2,000 bond. He posted bond shortly before 8 p.m. this evening.
According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office the video isn’t available at this time but hopefully they will have it online soon, at which point I’ll post it here as well.
