Program aide arrested on ORHS campus

Noel Stack

Managing editor

A contracted aide working on the Oak Ridge High School campus reportedly had more than study material in her vehicle’s trunk.

Kylie Alexis Cunningham, 26, who worked with an El Dorado County Office of Education program offered on the El Dorado Hills campus, was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale, selling/distributing and possession of a synthetic cannabinoid as well as possession of marijuana, liquor and a controlled substance on school grounds. Deputies booked Cunningham into the El Dorado County Jail in

Placerville at 2:51 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. She was later released, according to inmate records.

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest Friday afternoon, noting in a Facebook post, “Deputy Rude and the school resource officer team was called to Oak Ridge … by staff for an incident with a contracted aid … (who) was observed in a vehicle in the parking lot of the school and there was a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle.

“After investigation, the contracted aid was arrested for multiple controlled substance related charges,” the post continues. “There has not n See arrest, page A7

El Dorado County sheriff’s staff display the drugs, alcohol and other items reportedly found in the vehicle belonging to a contracted aide who worked on the Oak Ridge High School campus.