COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Columbus middle school teacher recently resigned, and now students and staff know why.

Nicole Edwards, who makes six figures a year as principal of Johnson Park Middle School, swiped the wallet of a woman on food stamps from a Goodwill Store last summer, the Columbus Post-Dispatch reports.

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“We took swift action by reassigning her and moving her out of that position as principal” when she pleaded guilty to felony theft in Delaware County Common Pleas Court in April, district spokesman Scott Varner said.

Varner said the district didn’t trust her to handle money, adding that the Columbus City Schools board of education accepted Edwards’ resignation about three weeks ago, the Associated Press reports.

According to the Post-Dispatch:

In July, an employee at the Goodwill store in Delaware set her wallet near a cash register to retrieve a dress from the store. When she returned, it was gone — along with $210 in cash, a Social Security card, a driver’s license, a state food-stamp card, a child-support card and various gift cards. Security-camera footage showed a woman in line grab the wallet, look inside it and put it in her purse, then walk away from the counter. The woman then checked out, buying $5 in merchandise with a credit card that police traced back to Edwards.

An officer called Edwards on her cellphone and Edwards “became exasperated and did not know how to respond”; she said she needed “to get some advice,” according to a police report.

Police said Edwards’ attorney, Sam Shamansky, tried to cut a deal with investigators by offering restitution in lieu of criminal charges, but Delaware City Police declined. A grand jury indicted Edwards in December, and Shamansky argued that “the charged criminal conduct was undoubtedly a result of Ms. Edwards’ illness,” court records show.

While Shamansky provided no proof of Edwards’ alleged mental illness, she was eligible for Ohio’s intervention instead of conviction program, and ordered into a treatment program, according to the Post-Dispatch, which pegged Edwards’ annual principal salary at $101,000.

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Locals who commented about Edwards’ criminal troubles online were not surprised, and repeatedly cited for Columbus superintendent Gene Harris, who was convicted of dereliction of duty in 2015.

“Another CCS leader showing a lack of integrity!” Patton Giles wrote. “A Gene Harris student, no doubt!”

“Notice that although she was arrested in the fall, she did not get to quit her job until the end of the year,” Beth Mann posted. “Perfect role model for school kids, for sure a Gene Harris protégé!

“She was a miserable, narcissistic tyrant of a principal,” Mann continued. “Finally she will have a mental health diagnosis and never be in schools again.”