PORTLAND (AP) – A Portland School Committee member who was arrested last weekend after allegedly skipping out on a cab fare is planning to resign from the board, its chairman said Wednesday.
Jason Toothaker told Chairman John Coyne that it was stressful trying to balance his job, college work and duties on the committee and that he planned to step down Jan. 4 so that his arrest would not be a distraction to the board.
Toothaker, 24, is one of four Green Independent Party members on the nine-member panel.
He was charged with misdemeanor theft after he allegedly failed to pay a $4.65 taxi fare and then ran from police officers early Saturday. After he was arrested when found hiding under a deck, he said he was so drunk that he remembered nothing about the incident.
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