Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PORTLAND, Tenn., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A Tennessee teacher has been charged with using sardine juice, condoms and lubricant to vandalize a middle school, police said. Brenda Sue Rawls, 50, was arrested Monday and charged with the Aug. 16 vandalism of a mini-fridge, a teacher's desk and three lockers at Portland East Middle School, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Wednesday. Advertisement Sumner County Sheriff Bob Barker said Rawls is charged with vandalism under $500, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and criminal trespassing. He said Rawls was assisted in the vandalism by a seventh-grader. The total damage from the vandalism was estimated at $250. Barker said investigators believe the vandalism was in retaliation for comments another teacher made about Rawls. Rawls, a former teacher at Portland East who was transferred July 31 to Watt Hardison Elementary, is due back in court Dec. 16.
