Criminal Charges

He had taught for three decades and earned a community's trust. So why did a respected veteran keep walking out of stores with things he never paid for — even as the punishments piled up?

He was the principal parents trusted with their kids. For ten months, he was also driving plain sealed boxes across the border in the dead of night. What was inside would end his career.

A trusted Wisconsin schoolteacher built a quiet reputation in the classroom. Then a night of terror on a dark road revealed a hidden life that would send him to prison and erase his career.

He stood at the front of the classroom every morning, trusted by parents and students alike. But after the final bell, Sean Gallagher was living a second life that would end with handcuffs, a guilty plea, and a profession he could no longer practice.

For forty years he was the steady veteran at the front of the room. No one knew about the violent double life that would end with him in a prison cell.