Former teacher guilty of hiding crimes

LITTLE ROCK — A woman who was a third-grade teacher at a Little Rock charter school when she was arrested in 2018 on federal drug and gun charges pleaded guilty last week to a reduced charge of concealing her boyfriend’s crimes.

U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. accepted a guilty plea from Shernetta Bogard, who is also known as Shernetta Robinson, to a charge of misprision of a felony. She admitted allowing her boyfriend to store cocaine, drug paraphernalia and guns in her home in the Pleasant Forest neighborhood without reporting him.

Bogard, now 41, was arrested Feb. 22, 2018, when federal agents searched her home at 4 Silver Fir Court, looking for her boyfriend, Sabin McCuien, who they believed lived there.

Officers found 5.3 pounds of cocaine, the type of drug paraphernalia used by large-scale drug dealers and six guns — at least two fully loaded with bullets in the chamber — alongside children’s toys.

McCuien pleaded guilty earlier Thursday to a charge of conspiring from 2016 through 2018 to possess and distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine.

At the time of raid, Bogard was a teacher at Little Rock Preparatory Academy at 1616 S. Spring St. She lived in the house with her three children, then ages 6, 17 and 20. She told officers McCuien hadn’t lived there for three or four months, but an officer who is part of a Drug Enforcement Administration task force testified officers had seen McCuien there about two weeks before the search.