Julia Morgan Pomona High School

By Brian Maass

ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) - CBS4 has learned that a social studies teacher at Pomona High School has been charged with felony evidence tampering afterwards investigators say she deleted data on her personal cellphone that was cardinal to a police investigation.

Court and police records show that Julia Renee Morgan is facing a unmarried felony count of evidence tampering in connection with an Arvada police investigation of Morgan's conduct at the school last autumn.

Jefferson County school district spokesperson Diana Wilson told CBS4 that Morgan is on leave pending a legal matter.

Morgan's attorney, Chris Decker, told CBS4 he is representing Morgan but he said he was "not at liberty to talk over the example."

Co-ordinate to Arvada police documents in the example, investigators received an anonymous alphabetic character regarding Morgan. Police asked to recover evidence from her jail cell phone every bit role of their probe.

"Julia was advised through her attorney that law enforcement had grounds to seize her phone and preserve information technology to allow sufficient time to seek a warrant to search the contents for the communication that she admitted to," reads an affidavit in the case.

On Oct. nineteen, police say Morgan surrendered her telephone to an Arvada police detective, ii days after police had interviewed her. But constabulary say that after obtaining a warrant to search the contents of her phone, they discovered she had "deleted the contents of her phone including text messages and telephone call logs" only hours after law told her they would be seizing her phone.

Morgan is due in Jefferson County court for an arraignment Feb. 26.

CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass has been with the station more than xxx years uncovering waste, fraud and corruption. Follow him on Twitter @Briancbs4.