ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. – St. Charles Parish middle school teacher Kristy Ruth Allen lost her job Thursday following an arrest for allegedly running a meth lab with her husband in the home they shared with their 7-year-old child.

Allen, 37, taught reading and writing for two years at R.K. Smith Middle School in the St. Charles Parish Public Schools until this week, when she arrested and charged with operating a methamphetamine lab with her 42-year-old husband, Ryan Christopher Allen, the St. Charles Herald-Guide reports.

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District spokesman Stevie Crovetto told The Advocate Allen no longer works at the school.

“She was an employee and is no longer an employee,” he said.

St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation last month into allegations Allen and her husband produced the drug at their Luling home on Ellington Street and secured a search warrant. Once inside, deputies allegedly found methamphetamine, evidence of a lab, at least one firearm, and the couple’s 7-year-old son living at the residence, the news site reports.

Both Kristy and Ryan Allen were arrested and charged with operating a clandestine laboratory and possession of methamphetamine, as well as possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. They also face charges of illegal use of a controlled dangerous substance in the presence of a minor and use of a firearm in the presence of controlled dangerous substances, according to the Herald-Guide.

Allen, a 10-year teaching veteran, was booked into the Nelson Coleman Correctional Center with her husband, and both are held on $500,000 bond.

Allen certainly isn’t the first teacher to lose their job for dabbling with meth.

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Former Indiana elementary teacher Laura Nowling, 48, was arrested twice in 2016 for possession of methamphetamine, the first for possessing it on school property in February and a second time for dealing the drug from her home in December, the Crothersville Times reports.

Nowling was initially sentenced to home arrest when officers discovered meth in a mint tin in her second-grade classroom at Austin Elementary. The December arrest came after she allegedly sold meth to an undercover officer at her home on multiple occasions.

Like Allen, Nowling had been a teacher for over a decade.

Fairfax, Virginia mayor and substitute teacher Richard Silverthorne was also arrested in August for on meth related charges after undercover officers allegedly agreed to meet him and other men for a group sexual encounter in exchange for the drug. When Silverthorne followed through with the agreement, arranged online, he was arrested and charged with distribution of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Fairfax County Police.