Following a report on Monday made by a Marysville teenager, Port Huron Police arrested Carrick Thomas Brennan, a Port Huron High School teacher for third-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct.
Following investigation by the school resource officer, who had the crime reported to her by a 16-year-old girl on December 19, as well as investigation by the school’s administration, Brennan was removed from the classroom that same day. The Port Huron Police Department’s Major Crime Unit prepared and executed a search warrant at an Aspen Drive home shortly after, with Brennan being arrested and lodged at the St. Clair County Jail at that time.
He was arraigned on Tuesday, and is being held on a $25,000 bond before his January 3rd probable cause hearing. Port Huron Schools superintendent Theo Kerhoulas assured parents in a letter home that the teacher is on administrative leave and is barred from all school district premises and from speaking with staff or students.
Brennan’s lawyer, Gerry Mason, who is also representing Croswell’s Shawn Patrick Woodruff in his June hit-and-run trial, asserted to the Times Herald that, with allegedly no forensic evidence, it was the student’s word against his client’s, with Brennan’s perspective yet to be told.
