CATAWBA COUNTY, NC (WBTV)- A middle school teacher in Catawba County has been suspended and banned from school grounds after deputies say he was charged filming two students at school.

According to Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid, 50-year-old Scott William Grantham, of Hickory, was arrested on Friday for two counts of felony secret peeping.

Grantham is an English as Second Language teacher at Arndt Middle School.

During an on-camera interview on Monday, Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid told WBTV that Grantham was busted videoing down the shirts of female students.

"In this case, he took a video camera and videoed down the blouse of two female students there at Arndt Middle School," Reid said.

Catawba County Schools Superintendent, Dr. Dan Brigman, suspended Grantham with pay - pending the outcome of the investigation.

LENOIR, NC (WBTV)- A Lenoir man was arrested for drug violations after an investigation that lasted several weeks, according to the Lenoir Police Department.

On May 1, just before 7 p.m., Lenoir Narcotics Detectives arrested Gerrod Barnes, aka "Hot Rod", 25, after the officials seized 2.6 grams of crack cocaine, $899 dollars in cash, digital scales, and other paraphernalia. The street value of drugs recovered amounts to $520 dollars, the official report states.

The violations occurred within 1,000 feet of First Steps, a child care facility, on Vance Street.

Barnes was charged with felony possession with intent to sell/distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a child care facility, possession with intent to sell/distribute cocaine, manufacture of cocaine, and maintaining a vehicle for storage of a controlled substance.

Today Harris Teeter launched a donation card campaign to support both the United Service Organizations (USO) and Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), two organizations committed to supporting our troops and their families.

During the month of May, Harris Teeter customers at every Harris Teeter location will be able to make $1, $3, or $5 donations to Support Our Troops at checkout.  Similar community-based donation card campaigns hosted by Harris Teeter have raised more than $500,000 in a given month; the first annual Support Our Troops campaign raised over $445,000.  Harris Teeter is proud to support both the USO and WWP during this May campaign and is thankful for both the involvement of its associates and its customers as well as the good works of both nonprofit partners.