A first grade teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools has been arrested in connection to a man's overdose death in Washington, D.C., police say.
Sarah Katherine Magid was arrested Monday after police and special agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration executed a search and seizure warrant at her home in Burtonsville, police said.
DEA agents and police detectives discovered that a man who died in March from a fentanyl overdose had been in Montgomery County in the days leading up to his death and had been in contact with Magid, according to police.
Two days before the victim was found dead in a home for recovering addicts — according to a D.C. police report — he reached out to Magid for Xanax, according to charging documents. Montgomery County police say text messages show the teacher sold to the man for months before his death and knew how dangerous the drugs were.
The day before the man was found dead, text messages show Magid was trying to get in touch with him but he wasn't responding, police said. The day after he was found, she texted him again, writing "Guess you died," and expressing concern having not had contact with him for four days.
The next day, the man's sister opened his phone and sent a message to Magid saying the man was dead. "I know who you are and I know what you did," his sister wrote.
Documents also say an anonymous source alerted police to Magid allegedly leaving the classroom to sell drugs outside of school.
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Magid teaches at Dr. Charles Drew Elementary in Silver Spring, according to the MCPS online staff directory.
Magid is in jail awaiting a bond hearing, police said.
Magid was placed on leave, according to an MCPS spokesperson.
