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Floyd Elementary Principal Holly Lepisto was released on bail from the Pahrump jail at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Special education teacher Sarah Hopkins was released at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
Special education aide Kathryn Cummings was still in custody Friday. The three women were in jail on charges of child abuse and conspiracy to commit a crime after allegations were made involving abuse of disabled students at Floyd Elementary School. A fourth special education aide, Phyllis DuShane, faces the same charges. She was released shortly after her arrest on Tuesday for medical reasons.
Justice of the Peace Tina Brisebill ordered the women held on $100,000 bail on Wednesday.
A fifth, so far unidentified, school district employee involved in the case was suspended from work after an internal investigation began earlier this week. The four educators facing criminal charges were also suspended pending the outcome of the district’s internal investigation.
No further arrests in the case were reported.
District Attorney Brian Kunzi said criminal complaints against the four educators will likely be filed on Monday, possibly revealing what evidence police uncovered in their investigation of abuse at Floyd.
Kunzi told the Pahrump Valley Times that he was kept abreast of developments throughout the Nye County Sheriff’s Office investigation.
Attempts to reach Lepisto, Hopkins and DuShane for comment were not successful.
Come on people wake up the sheriff will not arrest without EVIDENCE DAH…I dont know if you people are just used to living in this god forsacken corrupt town and not used to people being arrested for the crimes they have commited I am glad Det. B is on the force and I am glad he is investigating because he will get the truth. Let me tell all you idiots that have a heart on for him if you were in the shoes of these parents it would be a different story you would love Det. B. I will almost bet that all of you idiots who have nothing but nasty things to say about Det. B are Becket lovers. What is it you have been in trouble and Becket let you slide so you owe him support Im sure get over it the drunk is gone thank god time for you a**h***s to get a life. Go Get Em Det. B LMAO……
Thats funny Geez, The way you put that someone might actualy believe that’s what you think. But you know what I Know, The peoples rights all across the map are being spit on, stomped on and smashed, by participating law enforcement agencies. If ya look around 1ce, just 1ce innocent people get locked up every day with little to know evidence against them. Just 4 or 5 witnesses that are all friends. See The police departments, friends of the police departments and informants for police departments have ways of getting protesters or personality types that might get in the way of small time agendas out of the way. That is to lie on the them with teams of witnesses and provocotors. The term is community mobbing and it’s becomming a real fact even in the media. These are law enforcment tequniqes to accomplish illegal sting operations, amp statistics and gain payroll, along with get those people they don’t like out of the way. I’m not saying this presinct in pahrump is guilty of that but before you make charecter assessments of the teacher you might want to know all the possibilities.
That’s what you say until Det. Rogue comes for you. If you consider concerns about people’s fundamental rights being disregarded and trampled on as “nasty thoughts” then you must be either dim witted or un-American. I don’t love Beckett, I love the Constitution. You and Det. Rogue should check it sometime, it is a pretty cool document and, even in Nye County, it is the law of the land.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with Det. B professionally on several occasions and to interact with him on a personal level a few times also. Personally, I like the guy. But that is my opinion – based on my interactions with him. I have every right to have this opinion of him, just as you have the right to dislike him for whatever reason you have. Nothing I say will change your mind, nothing you say will change mine.
A majority of the people that have had a negative run in with law enforcement personnel never have anything good to say about them. The nicest motorcycle officer gave me a ticket the other day – THAT JERK!!!! And that is how I will always think about him but I bet people that know him think he is the nicest person ever. He has probably has been named dad of the year or something…
People complain about the police all the time, that is nothing new and nothing unusual – and the complaints do not go unseen. They cannot be pushed under the rug, Nye County is not under some super off the radar force field. No matter who you are there is always a “big brother” watching from somewhere.
If the concerns are unfounded, then that is what they are. Are you, the public going to get a report about that? NO. But seeing that he is still on the job and the Sheriff was re-elected would help one come to the conclusion that most of these concerns are being expressed by those whose encounters with him were not in their favor (THAT JERK!)
Kinda hits the nail squarely on the head.
Good post.
you are right. the constitution is a cool document. it would be nice if somehow it could be applied in nye county. that would dissappoint det b wouldn’t it?
I love this information, keep it coming!
I’ve visited Floyd, tho not in this class. There are worse things going on there, believe me.
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Like a soldier, Police officers obey, They take orders and defend what their told to defend. That is no longer the constitution. I don’t know exactly what their upholding but it’s not the constitution!!!!!!!!!! I Promise.