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SPENCER, NC Sept 18 2009 (WBTV) – A North Rowan High School teacher has been charged with more than three dozen counts of sexual activity involving three students, Spencer Police said Wednesday.
Police said they were first alerted to the case on August 12, when the Spencer Police Department was notified of possible inappropriate conduct of a teacher with a student at North Rowan High School.
Police said the investigation revealed that a teacher had been having sexual relations with three female students, all minors, with the first incident taking place in May of 2008 and the most recent incident occurring in August of 2009.
Following a month-long investigation, Matthew Miles Price, 28, of Harrison Street in Spencer, was charged in the case on Wednesday, police said.
The case file was reviewed with the District Attorney’s office in August, police said.
On Tuesday, a search warrant was conducted on Price’s residence. During the search, with the assistance of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, evidence was seized, police said.
Also on Tuesday, a search warrant was served on Price for his personal physical evidence.
Price was arrested Wednesday on 40 counts of sexual activity with a student. He was taken before a magistrate and received a $120,000 bond.
Shortly before 5 Wednesday afternoon, Price posted bond and was released from the Rowan Detention Center. He walked out of the jail with his lawyer, got into a truck and left.
Price and his attorney appeared in Rowan County court Thursday morning and the case was continued until November 4.
According to Rowan/Salisbury Schools spokeswoman Rita Foil, Price was hired by the district on July 27, 2004 as a PE teacher and track coach at North Rowan High School. Foil said Price resigned on August 12, 2009, for personal reasons which is the same day police launched their investigation into the allegations.
Police said they were first alerted to the case on August 12, when the Spencer Police Department was notified of possible inappropriate conduct of a teacher with a student at North Rowan High School.
Police said the investigation revealed that a teacher had been having sexual relations with three female students, all minors, with the first incident taking place in May of 2008 and the most recent incident occurring in August of 2009.
Following a month-long investigation, Matthew Miles Price, 28, of Harrison Street in Spencer, was charged in the case on Wednesday, police said.
The case file was reviewed with the District Attorney’s office in August, police said.
On Tuesday, a search warrant was conducted on Price’s residence. During the search, with the assistance of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, evidence was seized, police said.
Also on Tuesday, a search warrant was served on Price for his personal physical evidence.
Price was arrested Wednesday on 40 counts of sexual activity with a student. He was taken before a magistrate and received a $120,000 bond.
Shortly before 5 Wednesday afternoon, Price posted bond and was released from the Rowan Detention Center. He walked out of the jail with his lawyer, got into a truck and left.
Price and his attorney appeared in Rowan County court Thursday morning and the case was continued until November 4.
According to Rowan/Salisbury Schools spokeswoman Rita Foil, Price was hired by the district on July 27, 2004 as a PE teacher and track coach at North Rowan High School. Foil said Price resigned on August 12, 2009, for personal reasons which is the same day police launched their investigation into the allegations.
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