School Official Quits, Pleads No Contest in Attack

A Jefferson High School assistant principal accused of dragging an office worker out of his chair and hitting him in the face with her hand resigned after pleading no contest to a battery charge, a deputy city attorney said.

Delores Craig, 57, pleaded no contest Tuesday to the Dec. 22 attack. She was sentenced to community service and anger management counseling.

Deputy City Atty. Brian Williams said Craig became angry at a 29-year-old man who told her someone she was looking for was not there. Craig grabbed the man by his shirt, dragged him out of his chair and hit him in the face, cutting his lower lip, the prosecutor said.

Craig was arrested that night by school district police officers, Williams said.