{"id":59596,"date":"2010-12-17T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=59596"},"modified":"2010-12-19T16:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:54:02","slug":"59596","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=59596","title":{"rendered":"Mineola Teacher Arrested, Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=59597\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/12\/stephens.436x-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephens.436x\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-59597\" \/><\/a>MINEOLA \u2014 A Mineola teacher who is also married to the high school principal is arrested after allegedly having a relationship with a student, and has now quit her job. A statement released by Mineola I.S.D Superintendent Mary Lookadoo says JoAnn Stephens has resigned and is no longer employed by the district. According to the district\u2019s website, Stephens was a Physical Education teacher at the elementary and middle schools. <\/p>\n<p>Stephens, 43, was arrested Thursday afternoon after a four month investigation into the alleged relationship. Mineola police say they started the investigation after receiving a complaint from Child Protective Services on August 4. The alleged relationship was between Stephens and a male student who has since graduated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINEOLA \u2014 A Mineola teacher who is also married to the high school principal is arrested after allegedly having a relationship with a student, and has now quit her job. A statement released by Mineola I.S.D Superintendent Mary Lookadoo says JoAnn Stephens has resigned and is no longer employed by the district. According to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=59596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mineola Teacher Arrested, Resigns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 11:20:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59596"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60005,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59596\/revisions\/60005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}