Police-car-backAuthorities in northwest Iowa’s Plymouth County arrested a school teacher this week in a criminal case that’s been under investigation since April.

The investigation revealed that a male student, age 17, attending Remsen-Union Community School, had a sexual relationship with a female teacher employed with the Remsen-Union school district.

Warrants were issued for 24-year-old Samantha Kohls of Remsen. Kohls has been charged with two counts of an employee of a school district engaging in sexual conduct with a student of the Remsen-Union school district. Both counts are aggravated misdemeanors.

 Kohls, who now resides in Cedar Falls, turned herself in to the Plymouth County jail Thrursday, posted bond and was released.

(Reporting by Dennis Morrice, KLEM, Le Mars)