GOLDEN — A Jefferson County grand jury has indicted a former Jefferson County teacher and coach on a charge of tampering and destruction of physical evidence.
Nicole Marie Sirbu, 29, was a teacher at Stony Creek Elementary School and a coach for the combined Columbine and Chatfield high schools pole-vaulting team from Sept. 1, 2006, to Oct. 1, 2007.
On Sept. 26, 2007, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office began investigating an allegation that Sirbu had “inappropriate sexual contact” with a 17-year-old Columbine student who was on the pole-vaulting team.
Sirbu had exchanged numerous e-mails with the student using her work e-mail address and her work laptop, investigators said.
The indictment states that Sirbu became aware of the investigation and resigned from her teaching job Oct. 1, 2007.
When Sirbu turned in her school-district-issued laptop a few days later, investigators said, they discovered the hard drive originally in the computer had been replaced.
Sirbu is set to appear in court next month.
