A former Northwood-Kensett Community School District teacher who was arrested in November for drug possession was sentenced to two days in jail last week after pleading guilty to a marijuana controlled substance charge.

Sara Fenske, 28, filed a written plea to the charge, a second offense, last Thursday. A second charge of possession of a controlled substance and a charge of drug paraphernalia possession were dismissed. She will pay a $315 fine.

Fenske, who worked as a high school family and consumer science teacher with the district, was arrested Nov. 17, along with Joya Salzkorn, 23, of Hartley, Iowa, and Taylor Pohar, 23, of Milford, Iowa.

According to the Worth County Sheriff’s Office, Fenske, Salzkorn and Pohar were arrested after Worth County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducted a search warrant at 906 N. Third Ave. in Northwood. As a result of the search, several items of drug paraphernalia, meth, marijuana, prescription pills unaccompanied by a valid prescription and a handgun were found.

Salzkorn was arrested for unlawful prescription pills possession, marijuana possession and controlled substance possession; and Pohar was arrested for drug paraphernalia possession, marijuana possession, meth possession and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

Salzkorn pleaded guilty to possession of controlled substance-second offense, and charges of possession of controlled substance-marijuana-second offense and unlawful possession of a prescription drug were dismissed. She was sentenced March 19 to 52 days in jail and a $625 fine.

Pohar pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance-third or subsequent offense and was sentenced March 5 to a suspended five-year prison sentence and a suspended $750 fine. She will be on probation for five years. Charges of control of a firearm by a felon and marijuana controlled substance possession were dismissed.

 

See what happened last night in the PM report here.