Japhia Smith Huhndorf, Livingston, California (arrested May 2011) [chloroform, nitroglycerin]

TMP · Nov 20, 2011

Name: Japhia Smith Huhndorf, Atwater, California

Age: 34

School: Livingston High School, Livingston, California

Position: Chemistry teacher

Merced Sun-Star (23 May 2011): Livingston High teacher gave students chloroform, police say

Merced Sun-Star said:

A teacher at Livingston High School was arrested Monday morning after police say she helped students ingest chloroform. Chemistry teacher Japhia Smith Huhndorf, 34, of Atwater, had assisted three male students -- 16, 17 and 18 years old -- as they ingested the chemical, which can be used as an anesthetic, said Sgt. Ray Fong of the Livingston Police Department. Fong said police believe that Huhndorf helped the students inhale the chloroform using a towel. He said there were at least three incidents over the past five months.
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CBS News (25 May 2011): Calif. high school evacuated, is teacher making bombs?

CBS News said:

A Central California high school was evacuated Wednesday as authorities investigate reports that a chemistry teacher may have been making explosives. In a related development, the teacher in question, Japhia Huhndorf, was arrested Monday for allegedly helping three students at Livingston High School ingest chloroform ...
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CBS Local Sacramento (25 May 2011): School Evacuated On Reports Teacher May Have Been Making Bombs

CBS Local Sacramento said:

A Central California high school teacher was rearrested for possession of explosives after authorities evacuated the school to search her classroom. After police interviewed students of 34-year-old Japhia Huhndorf, they found documents that indicated Huhndorf may have been in possession of chemicals not typically found in a chemistry class.
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Merced Sun-Star (25 May 2011): Police: Explosive compounds found in Livingston High classroom; school evacuated

Merced Sun-Star said:

Livingston police arrested high school teacher Japhia Smith Huhndorf on Wednesday afternoon after officials say they found a vial of nitroglycerin in her chemistry lab at Livingston High School -- her second arrest this week ... The 34-year-old chemistry teacher was arrested at her Atwater home the same day.
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Sacramento Bee (25 May 2011): Police: Explosives found in Livingston High classroom; school evacuated

Sacramento Bee said:

4:17 p.m.: The Merced Police Department Bomb Squad destroyed the 4-milliliter vial of nitroglycerin found in a Livingston High teacher's chemistry lab. Livingston residents reported hearing a loud explosion on campus.
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Huffington Post (26 May 2011): $500k Bail Set for Japhia Huhndorf, Teacher Accused Of Storing Explosive Material

NY Daily News (26 May 2011): Chemistry teacher arrested twice this week; helped teens huff toxicants, stashed explosives in lab

NY Daily News said:

A high school chemistry teacher in California was arrested twice this week for helping students huff chloroform and keeping explosives in her lab, cops say ... During interviews with the teens and the teacher after the earlier arrest, cops learned that there could be explosives in Huhndorf's classroom, Livingston police spokesman Sgt. Ray Fong told the Daily News. Huhndorf was released after posting $15,000 bail. But after a bomb squad raid on her classroom came up empty, cops rearrested Huhndorf Wednesday afternoon and brought her to the school to point out where the nitroglycerin stored, Fong said.
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ABC News (27 May 2011): California Teacher in Chloroform Case Arrested Again on Explosives Rap

ABC News said:

A bomb squad detonated a four millilter vial of the highly explosive compound nitroglycerin after it was discovered in the chemistry lab at Livingston High School, south of Stockton. Detectives arrested 34-year-old teacher Japhia Huhndorf on explosives possession charges
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San Diego Tribune (1 June 2011): Teacher pleads not guilty in chloroform abuse case

San Diego Tribune said:

A Central California high school chemistry teacher accused of giving chloroform to students and making nitroglycerin in her classroom pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Japhia Smith Huhndorf made her plea by remote video in Merced County Superior Court from the county jail, where she is being held on one count of possession of a destructive device and five counts of felony child abuse.
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CBS News (1 June 2011): Teacher pleads not guilty in chloroform abuse case

CBS News said:

A Central California high school chemistry teacher accused of giving chloroform to students and making nitroglycern in her classroom pleaded not guilty Wednesday ... The second-year Livingston High School teacher allegedly gave the anesthetic to three students, who all were under the age of 18 at the time. Livingston police are unclear about Huhndorf's motive, but a spokesman said investigators are looking into all angles, including sex. "That's where our minds went and that's what we are looking deeply into," said Sgt. Ray Fong.
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CBS Local Sacramento (1 June 2011): Judge Denies Bail Reduction For Chemistry Teacher

Modesto Bee (3 June 2011): Livingston teacher's lawyer: Nitroglycerin for experiment

Modesto Bee said:

A Livingston High School chemistry teacher had nitroglycerin in her classroom for an experiment with advanced students, not to blow up the school, her attorney says ...
According to the report, police told Huhndorf that other students had said she had provided the substance and that she told the students how it worked and watched them apply it to a rag and hold it to their faces. She asked the police, "You mean as I gave it to them? I don't think I ever gave it to them." She told police she had seen a couple of students inhale chloroform through a rag, and that she had seen it twice for sure, according to the documents.
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Sacramento Bee (28 July 2011): Hearing for Livingston chemistry teacher delayed

Fresno Bee (22 Oct 2011): Hearing delayed for chemistry teacher

Modesto Bee (18 Nov 2011): Livingston teacher's ankle monitor stays

Merced Sun Star (18 Nov 2011): Livingston teacher's ankle monitor stays

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