Teacher Arrested for Assault

(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) A 28-year-old art teacher at Solomon/Plains Memorial Junior High, Larissa H. Goldstein, was arrested this week on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, simple assault, harassment and public drunkenness.

Following her arrest, Goldstein was suspended from her teaching position.

Court documents revealed that Plains Township police were called to an apartment on Hollenback Avenue about 3 a.m. Saturday for a report of an intoxicated person who had assaulted a woman, Sherry Rizzo, after forcing her way into the apartment looking for her boyfriend.

Goldstein was booked into custody and later released on $20,000 bail.