{"id":250686,"date":"2026-04-15T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:33:27","slug":"texas-teacher-faked-stabbing-and-triggered-a-splendora-high-school-lockdown-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250686\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas teacher faked stabbing and triggered a Splendora High School lockdown: sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas high school teacher<\/a> who triggered a campus lockdown with a reported stabbing by a student was arrested after investigators determined the incident was a hoax, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">More than 100 officers rushed to Splendora High School on Thursday after a teacher reported an emergency around 8:45 a.m., the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities locked down the campus as school resource officers moved to secure students and staff, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators, however, said authorities quickly determined there was no such assault.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-student-15-dies-after-shooting-teacher-high-school-authorities-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TEXAS STUDENT, 15, DIES AFTER SHOOTING TEACHER AT HIGH SCHOOL, AUTHORITIES SAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nicole-Truelove-mugshot-wings.jpeg\" alt=\"Nicole Truelove mugshot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nicole Truelove, 53, was arrested and charged with felony tampering with evidence and false report\/false alarm. She has been booked into the Montgomery County Jail. (Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the course of the investigation, it was determined that no assault on a teacher had been committed by a student,&#8221; the sheriff\u2019s office said. &#8220;Detectives discovered that the injury sustained by the teacher was self-inflicted and the evidence supports that the entire incident was a hoax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/splendora-hs-texas.jpeg\" alt=\"Splendora High School sign and campus\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>More than 100 officers responded to the school before investigators learned the reported stabbing was a hoax, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>The school had told parents that police were investigating a report of a &#8220;physical altercation&#8221; between a student and a staff member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/20k-bond-splendora-high-school-teacher-accused-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX26 Houston<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/oklahoma-principal-shot-leg-praised-tackling-school-shooter-hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">OKLAHOMA PRINCIPAL SHOT IN LEG IS PRAISED FOR TACKLING SCHOOL SHOOTER: &#8216;HE IS A HERO&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office launched an investigation within minutes, reviewing surveillance footage, interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence before concluding no assault had occurred.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/montgomery-county-sheriff-office.jpeg\" alt=\"Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s patrol vehicle\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the incident was isolated and there was no ongoing threat to students or the public. (Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office, File)<\/p>\n<p>Truelove was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">arrested and charged<\/a> with felony tampering with evidence and false report\/false alarm. She has been booked into the Montgomery County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>A judge set Truelove\u2019s bond at $20,000 on Friday. She will be required to submit to GPS monitoring and stay away from all schools and Splendora school district properties if she is released on bond, according to FOX26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Truelove worked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">school<\/a> for about a year, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the incident was isolated and there is no ongoing threat to students or the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas high school teacher who triggered a campus lockdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1725,32,27,29,28,393],"class_list":["post-250686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-high-school","tag-police-and-law-enforcement","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}