Teacher Gets Prison for Home Invasions

(Muskegon, Michigan) A 38-year-old substitute teacher, Tamara Lynne Poole, was sentenced this month after pleading guilty to invading homes to find prescription drugs.

"That is the insidious, pernicious nature of the whole drug scene -- that it leads to this," said Muskegon County Circuit Judge William C. Marietti as he imposed sentence on Tamara Lynne Poole of Grand Haven.

Poole had been under police surveillance as a suspect in home invasions when she was seen leaving Mona Shores High School and entering a neighborhood house by the back door. Later, she was arrested trying to enter another house. According to prosecutor Tony Tague, Poole admitted to being addicted to painkillers Ultram and tramadol and she searched for those drugs.

Poole received two to 15 years in prison for second-degree home invasion and a concurrent one year in prison for attempted home invasion in a separate case. She receives credit for 111 days time served.