Imagine finding out that one of your employees is wanted for a felony charge in another state.

That’s what happened in North Carolina at the Davidson County Schools when HR there ran a routine background check on a new teacher.

Arlene Hudson is wanted in Maryland in connection with a 2005 theft of a motor vehicle from a car dealership.

One recent afternoon, school officials called Hudson to the district’s administrative offices where she was detained by HR. She was arrested as a fugitive from justice.

Maryland authorities plan to extradite her back to that state, according to The News-Record.

Hudson had been offered a teaching contract contingent on completing the employment process which included a background check. 

Good thing the school followed through on the background check.

Tags: background check, felony, teacher