| UPDATE - Cleanup is now underway at a Boone County school after testing positive for meth residue with a school principal and teacher being arrested.
The $168,000 clean up comes after police say the school's principal and a teacher smoked meth inside the principals office with other areas of the school testing positive for meth residue.
Boone school officials say it is unlikely the insurance company will pick-up the costs.
While facing some criminal charges, the principal or teacher have yet been charged with a crime related to using the drug on school property.
By Bob Weaver
ORIGINAL STORY 7/27/11 - Boone County has become famous for the meth and drug culture of Jesco White, more recently with the widely-viewed film, "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia," currently being viewed on Showtime.
Now, a Boone County school has been closed after officials discovered meth residue in the building.
State Police had been investigating allegations that employees possessed and had been smoking meth in the building.
"To our knowledge, this is unprecedented in West Virginia public schools," said Boone County Superintendent John Hudson.
State Police Sgt. Anthony Perdue said that teacher Jack Turley admitted to smoking meth with Principal Keith Edward Phipps, 50, in the principals office at the Boone County Career and Technical Center.
Phipps was arrested May 20 on one misdemeanor charge of illegal purchase of pseudoephedrine and posted a $500 cash bond the same day.
Turley faces eight felony counts, four felony counts of possession of a precursor with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and four related felony conspiracy counts.
Turley and Phipps have been on administrative leave from the school since March.
Liza Cordeiro, a spokeswoman with the state Department of Education, said that DHHR officials recommended the building's closure on Friday after sections of the building tested positive for methamphetamine residue.
Renegade Jesco White and his family have been featured in three films, Dancing Outlaw; Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood; and the latest, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.
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