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Edit Top USA CasinoTop USA SportsbookTop Bitcoin CasinoTop Non-US Casino $5,000 Bonus$2,500 Bonus130% .5 BTC$5,000 BonusThe principal of West Riviera Elementary has been removed from the school after police say she pawned a school computer at a West Palm Beach pawn shop five times in the past year.Principal Tonja Lindsey-Latson, 48, was arrested Thursday by school district police.Investigators said they caught her pawning a school-owned laptop this month and claiming it as her own.She was arrested on a charge of false verification of ownership and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail.She was later released on a $5,000 bond.She is suspended with pay from the school while the case proceeds.Each time Lindsey-Latson pawned the Apple MacBook Pro laptop, she received between $300 and $500, police say.In the first four cases, detectives say she recovered the laptop after paying the loan amount, plus a cash fee, at Cash America Pawn on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach.Police say they caught on after she pawned it for a fifth time, for $300, on Jan.

17, a transaction that triggered an alert from an Internet service that monitors pawn shop transactions.Confronted by a school district detective, Lindsey-Latson first claimed that the laptop was hers, then said that she confused it with an identical one that she owned, according to the arrest report.Later, she admitted that she did not currently own a similar computer.She told the detective that she had pawned it because she had a personal emergency and needed money.Each time she pawned it, she said, she retrieved it after receiving her next paycheck or money from some other source.Lindsey-Latson did not respond to a call to her cell phone seeking comment.On Wednesday, school district officials alerted parents at West Riviera Elementary that Lindsey-Latson would be “absent from campus for an extended period of time for personal reasons.” In her place, the school’s assistant principal, Willie Nelson, will lead the campus, Deputy Superintendent David Christiansen wrote.Lindsey-Latson has been principal at West Riviera since 2011, where she currently earns $93,200 a year, school district records show.

In a statement, the school district confirmed that she had been removed from the school.Lindsey-Latson is suspended with pay at this time,” the district said.“We will begin our internal investigation once the criminal investigation is complete.”As a 7-year-old troublemaker at Lake Park Elementary, Ken Prophete landed in the principal's office time and time again.But instead of sending him home or suspending him, then-principal Mike Murgio kept an eye on the second-grader while he finished his work.He talked to him about learning to control his feelings, actions and choices."Hekept me out of harm's way without even knowing it," said Prophete, who credits Murgio with putting his life on track."It was just a sense of somebody showing that they care."Thecollege wrestling coach, now 32, was among hundreds of former students, teachers and others stunned by news that Murgio — a district leader for more than 30 years and a school board member — had been arrested.Federal prosecutors charged him with bribery tied to a money-laundering scheme unrelated to his district duties.Arrested Thursday at his West Palm Beach home, Murgio resigned his District 1 seat the next day.

He also suspended his re-election campaign.It was a stunning turn of events for a career educator who served as a teacher, administrator and school board member — and once hoped to be superintendent."Ihope it's all bogus and it can be sorted out," said Eileen Shapiro, who taught under Murgio at West Riviera Elementary."I just feel very badly for him, for his family and for all of us who knew him and worked with him and really appreciated the kind of leader he was, because he was dynamite for us."Accordingto an indictment filed in New York, Murgio was involved in bribing the chairman of a New Jersey credit union to help hide money made illegally through an operation called Coin.mx.Allegedly run by his 31-year-old son, the company transferred bitcoin — an electronic form of currency — into cash, helping international hackers profit.Father and son and their accomplices operated the credit union "as a captive bank for their unlawful bitcoin exchange," the indictment said.Prosecutors say Coin.mx, launched in 2013, laundered at least $1.8 million before Murgio's son was arrested in July.Murgio did not return a call seeking comment.

His attorney, Stuart Kaplan, said Murgio maintains his innocence and expects to be cleared.On Thursday, Kaplan said Murgio would not leave his post.By Friday, Murgio had apparently changed his mind.In a resignation letter sent that day to school board Chairman Chuck Shaw, he wrote that he was stepping down "with great regret," recognizing his personal situation could create a distraction."Iremain committed to our community and the education of our children," the letter said, "and I am hopeful that in the near future I will be able to dedicate my time and energy again to the children, the Palm Beach County School Board and the community it serves."Murgioarrived at the Palm Beach County School District 43 years ago.Fresh out of New Jersey's William Paterson University, where he graduated with a degree in education, he was hired as a teacher at Lake Park Elementary in 1973.By the 1980s, he had completed a master's degree at Florida Atlantic University and become principal.Shapiro, hired as a third-grade teacher in 1984, remembers him as a leader who popped into classrooms to watch lessons and later left notes in teachers' mailboxes complimenting things he liked."If

you were doing something interesting and the kids were engaged, he'd say, 'Great lesson — wish I could have stayed longer,'" she recalled.Over the years, Murgio took on several roles in district administration.With experience as a general contractor, he served as a construction manager in the 1990s.As Palm Beach County went through a population boom, he oversaw school construction and created the district's design-build program, in which architects and builders bid and work on projects together.The program helped speed up the completion of new schools and was later replicated in Broward County.In 1995, Murgio was one of 39 applicants for superintendent.School board members wanted someone with previous experience heading a district, and he was soon eliminated from the pool.He returned to school administration as principal of Inlet Grove Community High in Riviera Beach.When administrators in 2003 made plans to close the technical school, he oversaw its transition into a charter school."We

think Inlet Grove offers a great experience for kids, and we'd hate to see that go," he told the Sun Sentinel at the time."We don't want to lose that small-school environment."Afterleading the school for a handful of years, Murgio retired from the district in 2006.As a candidate for school board, he touted his experience in local schools.He gained the support of the Classroom Teachers Association, former superintendents and a county commissioner.In the November 2012 runoff election against Christine Jax, a former Minnesota education commissioner, he won with 52 percent of the vote.In his four years on the board, Murgio often advocated for expanding school choice.He suggested allowing students to choose any school in the district, a concept that ultimately went through at the state level when the governor recently signed a bill enacting statewide open enrollment."Nowthe state has come and pretty much taken care of that," Murgio said last month."So I don't have to fight that issue anymore."He

said he planned to turn his attention to another issue he supports, possibly pushing for all students to attend prekindergarten.Murgio's tenure was not without controversy.In November, an investigation concluded that his "undue influence" over a new bus routing system contributed to a meltdown that made thousands of students late to school in the first few weeks of classes.Kathi Gundlach, president of the Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association, said the union hasn't necessarily agreed with Murgio on everything.Still, she said, the school board as a whole treats teachers well."Hehas some mixed reviews, but I would say on the whole, they were fairly favorable," Gundlach said.She said she was in shock at Murgio's arrest.Just a day before, at Wednesday's school board meeting, the two had discussed creating a constitutional amendment that would require the Florida Legislature to fund education at a rate more comparable to other states.The next day, FBI agents showed up at Murgio's house.