Overview

• Police and an ambulance responded to Barre Town Middle & Elementary School at about 10:49 a.m. Wednesday for a report of an impaired woman.
• Authorities identified the woman as 47-year-old Melissa Martin, a permanent substitute with the Barre Unified Union School District.
• Martin admitted to administrators that cocaine was in her jacket pocket inside the classroom where she had been teaching.
• A police K9 alerted to narcotics in a jacket and backpack, and a white substance recovered from the jacket tested positive for cocaine.
• Martin received citations for possession of cocaine and reckless endangerment, and the district has revoked her access to the school with no court date announced.