Carolina Teacher Busted for Drugs

(Spartanburg, South Carolina) A 22-year-old English teacher at Byrnes Freshman Academy, Angela Marie Burke, has been arrested and charged with obtaining prescription drugs by fraud.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control says Burke went to a CVS store in Lyman on February 5 and obtained a quantity of cytotec, which goes by the brand name of Misoprostol.

DHEC spokesman Thom Berry says the prescription for the medicine was obtained by a nurse practitioner who told the state agency she didn’t prescribe the medicine for Burke.

Burke was booked into custody at the Spartanburg County Jail and later released.