A Wallingford substitute teacher was arrested after he refused to leave school, according to police.
Police responded to Pond Hill Elementary School just after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28 to investigate a disturbance and school officials said a substitute teacher, 24-year-old Kelly Bolling, of Norwalk, was refusing to leave the school.
A school administrator told officers that administrators from a different Wallingford elementary school had told Bolling the day earlier that he would not be allowed back to that school after reports of him watching movies with earbuds in both ears during class, police said.
The principal of Pond Hill Elementary School told police she went to check on Bolling and saw him texting on his phone instead of engaging the students, so she called him in at the end of the day to hear his side of the story and noticed that he was mumbling and slurring his words, police said.
Bolling was then advised that he wouldn’t be working for Wallingford Public Schools again and was asked to leave, but Bolling refused to leave school grounds, according to police.
When officers approached Bolling, he was agitated, his eyes were bloodshot and he was swaying back and forth, police said.
Bolling refused to remove his hand from his pocket or drop the blue backpack he was holding and lifted it over his head as if he was going to throw it at the school administrator and an officer, police said.
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Bolling was charged with criminal trespass, second-degree breach of peace, interfering and resisting arrest and second-degree threatening.
He was released on $1,500 bond and is due in court on Oct. 12.
