09/23/2026
MIAMI SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CHARGED AFTER S*X TOY INCIDENT INVOLVING FOUR STUDENTS
MIAMI, Oklahoma — A Miami school administrator has now been formally charged following an August incident in which investigators say four male students were shown a s*x toy hidden inside a cookie box.
Pamela Rae Couch-Bevis, 63, is charged in Ottawa County District Court Case No. CM-2026-00723 with one misdemeanor count of Acts Resulting in Gross Injury/Outraging Public Decency.
The criminal case was filed September 21, 2026, before Judge McAffrey Whalen Meloy. A bench warrant was issued the same day.
According to a Miami Police Department arrest-warrant affidavit, Couch-Bevis was serving as the high school and junior high principal at the time of the incident.
Investigators say that on August 25, four male students went to Couch-Bevis’ office to retrieve the school’s “Auggie Doggie” mascot costume for an upcoming football game.
All four students were minors.
According to the affidavit, Couch-Bevis gave one of the students an empty Nabisco assorted-cookie box containing pink and purple tissue paper. Inside the box was a s*x toy.
One of the boys told investigators Couch-Bevis instructed another student to “take one,” apparently referring to what the student believed was a cookie.
The student reached into the box, pulled out the s*x toy and immediately attempted to put it back.
The four boys later provided individual statements and were forensically interviewed as part of the investigation.
One student told investigators Couch-Bevis appeared to know what was inside the box because she continued encouraging someone to open it.
Another student said Couch-Bevis told the boy to “open it, it doesn’t matter,” after he tried to hand the box back.
A fourth student told investigators Couch-Bevis handed him the box and said, “this is for you.”
According to his account, he initially could not see what was inside because of the tissue paper. He reached into the box, pulled out the s*x toy and said he was shocked when he realized what it was.
The boys left the office and reported the incident to their coach shortly afterward.
The affidavit states the item had originally been found during the previous school year stuck to a wall inside a boys’ restroom and had been taken into Couch-Bevis’ possession.
Investigators later recovered the cookie box as evidence along with three pieces of gift tissue paper, two purple and one pink, and the s*x toy.
Miami Public Schools placed Couch-Bevis on paid administrative leave effective August 26, one day after the incident, according to the affidavit.
Couch-Bevis went to the Miami Detectives Office for an interview on August 27 and was advised of her Miranda rights before questioning.
Detective Andrew Hanson wrote that Couch-Bevis said she had made “a poor choice in making a joke.”
According to the affidavit, Couch-Bevis said she was retrieving the mascot costume from a closet when she handed one of the students the box and told him he could not have what was inside.
She said the student then asked what was in the box and she told him to look.
Couch-Bevis reportedly said the incident was not intentional and lasted less than five minutes.
She denied telling a student, “this box is for you,” and told investigators she believed the boys laughed and did not appear offended.
“It was truly a joke,” she reportedly told investigators.
Investigators also questioned Couch-Bevis about why she had kept the s*x toy after it was found months earlier.
According to the affidavit, she said she did not keep it intentionally and had never intended to do anything with it involving a student.
She later said she may have planned to use it as a white elephant gift, which she said explained why it was packaged inside the box.
The affidavit also addresses Couch-Bevis’ statement that she reported the incident herself.
Couch-Bevis reportedly told investigators she contacted a school administrator the following morning because she believed she had made a mistake.
However, investigators later determined that the students’ coach had already emailed school officials about the incident before Couch-Bevis made that report.
The affidavit states the incident “was already in the process of being reported prior to the defendant self-reporting.”
The police affidavit originally listed an anticipated charge involving obscene material. However, the charge ultimately filed in Ottawa County District Court is Acts Resulting in Gross Injury/Outraging Public Decency.
The criminal case remains pending.
Couch-Bevis is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
