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The incident occurred Wednesday at Alcott Elementary School in Pomona.

Elena Ramirez said her son, Gilbert, and his entire class was forced to eat lunch in their room on Wednesday because they had to finish an important assignment.

Gilbert quickly threw away his lunch, an unwrapped rib sandwich and a carton of milk, in order to go outside and play, his mother said.

Immediately after he left the classroom, Gilbert said another student ran after him and said his teacher wanted him to come back and finish his lunch.

Gilbert said his teacher asked him to take his food out of the trash and eat it. According to Gilbert, he ate his lunch while his classmates looked on laughing at him.

Late Friday, Richard Martinez, the Superintendent of the Pomona Unified School District issued the following statement:

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Ruth Natalie Perkins was arrested Thursday on charges of aggravated battery on a public or private education employee.

According to an arrest affidavit, chemistry teacher Elvira Tomlin said Perkins entered her classroom unannounced and started cursing at her in Spanish while threatening to kill her.
Tomlin told Perkins to leave the room, but she refused, the affidavit stated.

Tomlin tried to call for help, but Perkins knocked her desk phone onto the floor and later slapped her cellphone out of her hand, officials said.

Perkins then knocked Tomlin's glasses off her face and pushed her against a wall, according to the affidavit, which also stated that Tomlin tried to keep Perkins off her, but Perkins scratched her face.

Two students then came to Tomlin's aid, pulling Perkins off her, the affidavit said.
Perkins was located in the school parking lot and was arrested and taken to jail.
Tomlin wasn't seriously injured but her face was scratched near her left eye and her face was red, officials said.

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Alleged crimes have a way of catching up to perpetrators sooner or later. 

LA Timesreports fifteen years after the alleged incident, a teacher at Bell Senior High School was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault on a student, according to Los Angeles police and school officials.

The assault allegedly happened in 1999 when the suspect, Peter Christopher Gomez, was a teacher at Franklin High School, said LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera. She did not have any more details about the allegations or about the gender or age of the student at the time.

Gomez, 47,  a resident of La Habra, has been a history and drama teacher at Bell Senior High School for nine years, according to a statement by the Los Angeles Unified School District. He began working for the district in 1996 at Franklin and in 2005 moved to Bell.

“We are cooperating with the Los Angeles Police Department,” L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy said in a statement. “The teacher will not be allowed near students prior to the conclusion of the investigation and the resolution of charges.”

The school district said it has notified parents and guardians Friday of the arrest. Herrera said detectives are asking the public to come forward with information about any additional students who might have been victims.

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NY DailyNews reports a Texas teacher who had sex with a student has evaded the slammer after apologizing to her victim.

Nikki Scherwitz, who pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old Brazosport High School student, was sentenced to 10 years of probation and a $5,000 fine.

Prosecutors reportedly agreed to the plea deal because the student was nearly 17, the age of consent in Texas. Scherwitz, 26, also agreed to send written apologies to the victim’s mom and to the Brazosport Independent School District in Houston.

“I apologize for the behavior I engaged in with a student of BISD,” Scherwitz scribbled onto a piece of paper. “I crossed an ethical boundary I never should have crossed. Again, I’m sorry.”

But some parents and students are upset that Scherwitz managed to avoid a jail sentence.

"The men get 25 to life, but a woman gets a slap on the wrist with only a $5,000 fine," Mario Salinas, a student at Brazosport High School, told KHO

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AP reports the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, the Associated Press has learned.

A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was taken alive overnight in the beach resort town. The official was not authorized to discuss the arrest and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Guzman, 56, was found with an unidentified woman. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were "heavily involved" in the capture, the official said. No shots were fired.

Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the DEA's most-wanted list. His drug empire stretches throughout North America and reaches as far away as Europe and Australia. His cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last several years.

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