Southern Pines police arrested a man and woman Tuesday at Southern Pines Elementary School for allegedly stealing checks and a credit card from a teacher’s purse at Southern Pines Primary School earlier that day.

The man, who did not have a driver’s license, identified himself as Donald Robinson, 50, of Rockingham. He was jailed with secured bail set at $250,000. His first court hearing is scheduled for April 25.

A female companion, who was driving the car, was identified as Andrea Barnett Clay, 38, of Charlotte. She was placed in jail under a $50,000 secured bond.

The man, who signed the register at the elementary school on May Street as James Robertson, told personnel in the front office that he wanted to apply for a job in the cafeteria, according to police reports. He was sent to the cafeteria.

About an hour later, a school employee spotted the man rummaging through desks in an empty classroom. School officials called police, who arrived around 1:30 p.m.

The man had Sam’s store identification card in his possession, which had the name James Holmes on it. He was charged with felonious larceny of a credit card, felonious possession of stolen goods, misdemeanor larceny of checks, misdemeanor possession of the stolen checks, resisting arrest and damage to town property.

The man allegedly resisted when police Lt. Rodney Hardy attempted to take him into custody. Hardy suffered minor injuries to his leg and his uniform was torn.

Clay was charged with the felonious credit card theft, felonious possession of stolen goods, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor possession of stolen checks.

After being called to the school, Hardy approached Clay, who was sitting in a car in front of the school. The car had temporary tags on it. When he asked for identification, he observed a couple of checks and a credit card with different names on them in the car. They apparently belonged to Barbara Davis, a teacher at Southern Pines Primary School, said police Lt. Carol McCarn.

The man had been at Southern Pines Primary, a K-2 school, earlier in the day. He told school office personnel that he wanted to apply for a cafeteria job, McCarn said.

McCarn said school employees told police that the man insisted on going to the cafeteria himself. They told him that he couldn’t because lunch was being served and that he would have to go to the central office in Carthage to apply.