A 34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enrol at a private Texas high school.

Longview police said that Charity Johnson was arrested after telling officers she was "Charite Stevens".

She was being held in Gregg County Jail on 500 dollar bond for allegedly giving false information to police.

Police had been called to a flat when the person Johnson was staying with said she no longer wanted her living there. Police gave her a trespass warning.

The principal at a small private school in East Texas says Johnson enrolled in October with a guardian and filled out paperwork indicating she was 15.

Police say she is 34, although jail records list her as 31.

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