For more than five years, Kelli Peters has been living in a holding pattern, her life having been upended when two fellow parents at California's Plaza Vista Elementary School planted drugs in her car. But earlier this month, she was given a new release on life when an Orange County jury awarded her $5.7 million in damages against the parents, Jill and Kent Easter. "It has been a five-and-a-half-year-ordeal," says Peters. "We are so relieved to be past that civil stage. It is very nerve wracking." She adds, "People said, Why would you put yourself through that on top of everything else?...
- 2/18/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Jill Easter, the Irvine, California, mom convicted with her now ex-husband Kent of planting drugs in the car of the PTA President at their son's elementary school as revenge for a school spat, once wrote a novel about committing "the perfect crime." "The tag line was, 'If you knew how to commit the perfect crime would you do it?," says lawyer Rob Marcereau, who represented PTA President Kelli Peters in her civil trial against the Easters. "It was a game for them. This was a fantasy for them." The novel, entitled Holding House, which is written under Easter's pen name Ava Bjork,...
- 2/18/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Jill Easter, the Irvine, California, mom convicted with her now ex-husband Kent of planting drugs in the car of the PTA President at their son's elementary school as revenge for a school spat, once wrote a novel about committing "the perfect crime." "The tag line was, 'If you knew how to commit the perfect crime would you do it?," says lawyer Rob Marcereau, who represented PTA President Kelli Peters in her civil trial against the Easters. "It was a game for them. This was a fantasy for them." The novel, entitled Holding House, which is written under Easter's pen name Ava Bjork,...
- 2/18/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
[CUSTOM_PLAYER_BRIGHTCOVE "4759023521001"] Not long after the Irvine Police Department began investigating drugs found in the car of Kelli Peters, President of the PTA of Plaza Vista Elementary School, they realized things weren't adding up. After all, Peters passed a sobriety test and a search of her home came up negative for prescription drugs. Peters adamantly denied that the drugs were hers, insisting they were planted. "Irvine police had a strong suspicion at that point that she might be telling the truth," Orange County prosecutor Chris Duff tells People. Fourteen months later, police charged fellow Plaza Vista parents Jill and Kent Easter, both lawyers,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
The call to police in Irvine, California, came from a father of a Plaza Vista Elementary School student: The father claimed he had seen a parent volunteer driving erratically into the school parking lot and hide drugs behind the driver's seat before entering the school. He gave police a license plate number and a name: Kelli. When police searched the vehicle of PTA volunteer and mother Kelli Peters, they discovered a baggie containing marijuana, Percocet, Vicodin and a pipe. Kelli was volunteering with the after-school karate class inside the school when police summoned her to her car and confronted her with the evidence.
- 2/17/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
The call to police in Irvine, California, came from a father of a Plaza Vista Elementary School student: The father claimed he had seen a parent volunteer driving erratically into the school parking lot and hide drugs behind the driver's seat before entering the school. He gave police a license plate number and a name: Kelli. When police searched the vehicle of PTA volunteer and mother Kelli Peters, they discovered a baggie containing marijuana, Percocet, Vicodin and a pipe. Kelli was volunteering with the after-school karate class inside the school when police summoned her to her car and confronted her with the evidence.
- 2/17/2016
- by Christine Pelisek, @chrispelisek
- PEOPLE.com
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