Cobb Reporter

A Dade County High School teacher was arrested recently after an unloaded revolver and ammunition were found in her Georgia classroom.

According to a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta, forensics teacher Catherine Turner of Ringgold was taken into custody earlier this month at Dade County High School, just one day after the unloaded gun was found in her classroom. At that time, the Dade County Sheriff’s Office said the gun was found alongside 10 rounds of ammunition inside a gun case under a bookshelf in Turner’s classroom.

"Nothing found during the investigation indicated that there was ever a threat to any Dade County Student or Employee," FOX 5 reports the sheriff’s office wrote in a statement.

Upon her arrest, Turner was booked into the Dade County Jail, FOX 5 reports. 

Among comments, FOX 5 reports Turner told police she brought the weapon to school by mistake. The teacher’s attorney told WDEF Turner mistakenly believed it to be a container of art supplies and took it to school along with some cardboard boxes full of items for her classroom. 

The school resource officer took the gun into evidence, FOX 5 states, and no additional weapons were found. At that time, Turner’s attorney said the forensics teacher was the one to notify officials about the gun, calling her arrest a “gross overreaction.”