By Emily Anne Epstein

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A couple of California attorneys were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly planting a bag of drugs in the car of the president of their child's Parent Teacher's Association at the Plaza Vista Elementary School.

Irvine police said that Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 38, conspired to frame Kelli Peters by putting Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana and a used marijuana pipe behind the front seat of her car.

The duo sought revenge on Mrs Peters because of a longstanding feud over their son, according to police, and resorted to extreme measures to get her fired - and imprisoned.

Their feud is said to date back two years when Mr Kent filed a civil complaint after Ms Peters - then a school volunteer - for allegedly locking his son out of the school for 20 minutes during an after-school tennis lesson, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Charged: Irvine police said that Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, right, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 38, left, conspired to frame Kelli Peters by putting Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana and a used marijuana pipe in her car

Victim

Victim: The duo sought revenge on Mrs Peters, pictured, because they believed the woman wasn't properly supervising their son, according to police, and resorted to extreme measures to get her fired - and imprisoned

A tennis instructor found the boy 'crying and alone', according to the complaint. Mrs Peters allegedly said she locked the boy out because he took too long to line with other children.

The feud then seems to have intensified after Mrs Easter was asked by the school board not to take the matter to police. 

Mrs Easter then got a retraining order against Ms Peters, claiming that she was harassing her son and had even threatened to kill her. She claimed that Ms Peters 'will stop at nothing to silence my son' and had been calling him psychotic and unstable to other parents.

'She is stalking me and attempting to intimidate me at my son's school and while I run errands in Irvine,' she alleged.

Police said that on February 16, 2011, the Easters enacted a plan to get rid of Mrs Peters.

Just after midnight, police claim Kent Easter sneaked over to the home of the Mrs Peters, who was identified by KTLA, and placed the drugs inside her unlocked vehicle in plain sight, where it would be easily visible from outside the vehicle.

Later that day, Kent Easter assumed a fake name and phone number and reported to police that he was a 'concerned parent who had witnessed an erratic driver park at the elementary school,' officials said.

He identified Mrs Peters by name, claimed he witnessed her shoving a bag of drugs into her car and even read out her license plate, police said.

Kent and Jill Easter were allegedly in constant contact with one another throughout the escapade, texting and calling each other in between every move.

'This was obviously something [the Easters] had sought out and planned with the intent of having her arrested,' Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office, said to the Los Angeles Times.

Out

Out: Police said that on February 16, 2011, the Easters enacted a plan to get rid of Mrs Peters, who was the Parent Teacher's Association president at the Plaza Vista Elementary School, pictured

But when officers arrived at the parking lot and saw the bag of drugs, they asked Mrs Peters to search her vehicle. She complied, but was shocked at what they found.

'I thought I was on a joke show, like someone was playing a joke on me,' Mrs Peters told KTLA.

'I thought I was on a joke show, like someone was playing a joke on me.'
Victim, Kelli Peters

Regardless, she was detained for two hours while police conducted an investigation.

They quickly determined that the woman was in a classroom during the time she was supposedly stuffing drugs in her car.

After that, the focused in on the Easters, who had tried to sue Mrs Peters twice before, but the cases were dismissed.

'They tried to make me look like the worst person you could be when you’re involved with a school,' Mrs Peters told KTLA. 'I just don't understand it.'

Police said they obtained footage from a security camera near Kent Easter's work in Newport Beach while he was calling to report on Mrs Peter's 'erratic driving.'

Accomplices? Kent and Jill Easter were allegedly in constant contact with one another throughout the escapade, texting and calling each other in between every move

Party's Over

Party's Over: Kent and Jill Easter were arrested on Tuesday and charged with conspiring to prompt a false arrest, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime

'I wouldn't have seen my daughter again,' Mrs Peters said, thanking the police for being so thorough.

'Those are the nightmares that I had.'

Kent and Jill Easter were arrested on Tuesday and charged with conspiring to prompt a false arrest, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime.

If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of three years in state prison. They were released on $20,000 bail each and neither returned the MailOnline's request for comment.

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Somebody is going overboard with the Botox.

Guilty lawyers and law-enforcers should automatically receive double the sentence for proving their contempt for the law.

To Serea.... commenting on his looks.....handsome is as handsome does!!

Always wipe your feet before LEAVING a lawyers office so you do not contaminate the street.

What a great lesson to teach their young son: If someone wrongs you, set them up?!?

Lawyers....bottom-feeders at the best of times.

Sounds like a plot from Bad Teacher.

I must agree with many posters from both sides of the ocean....this world has gone mad!

It's unbelievable.

What a handsome hubby

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