A Monahans High School Spanish teacher is out on bond after being charged with having an improper relationship with a student.

Police tell CBS 7 News 47-year-old Imelda Dominguez turned herself in Thursday after being caught with a student inside a car Wednesday night.

As if the story wasn't bizarre enough, several of the Spanish teacher's current and former students told us that while they were initially shocked by the news, they weren't exactly surprised.

In fact some say her arrest has been a long time coming.

“I didn't want to believe the rumors, because you're not supposed to believe rumors, but if they have evidence, proves rumors are true,” said Paris Noblett, a former student of Dominguez.

When Noblett and her friends arrived to Monahans High School Thursday morning they were expecting their day to go by smoothly and quickly with an early release time on the eve of Good Friday and a three day weekend ahead.

But during their second period they were startled by a presence of police officers and were told their former Spanish teacher, Dominguez, had been escorted off campus.

"I've just heard a lot of rumors that she messes around with all of the varsity boys and she does have favorites," Noblett said.

It turns out that the long-time educator turned herself in Thursday after engaging in an improper relationship with a student on Wednesday night.

In a news release the Monahans Police Department stated that an officer approached a suspicious car parked in the 300 block of Quela.

Inside the car was Dominguez and the student.

"I mean I kind of saw it coming because I knew one day it was going to catch up to her, but kind of surprised me," said another former student of Dominguez, Felipe Carlos.

Another one of Dominguez's former students, Marissa Herdia, didn't mince words when describing the teacher's on-campus demeanor.

She recalls Dominguez overstepping her professional role as a teacher with another male student.

"She would go in there every day after lunch and take a certain student baked goods, and pull him out of class for an hour, and go talk to him, whatever they would do," Herdia said.

But other student's still find her arrest hard to believe.

"She's such a good teacher, we would stay after school with her and I can tell her anything," Miranda Ramirez said, who currently has Dominguez as a teacher.

Dominguez has been placed on administrative leave and the investigation is being conducted by the Monahans Police Department and Texas Rangers.

We attempted to reach out to the school district for comment, but our calls were not immediately returned.