ORLANDO, Fla. – Three Florida 12-year-olds face felony charges after they allegedly dumped red pepper flakes into their teacher’s pop in retaliation for a recent punishment.

Police arrested three Deltona Middle School girls Friday and charged two with poisoning food or water and tampering with consumer products and the third with tampering with consumer products and being a principal to poisoning food or water, WNEP reports.

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Teacher Jayne Morgan, 52, told police one of the girl’s put glue in her classmate’s backpack, and possibly stole the student’s laptop, and she sent the girl to the office last Monday.

The seventh grader was angry at Morgan over the incident, and initially wanted to “vandalize her car with paint,” according to court records, but one of her friends convinced her otherwise, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The next day the angry student brought crushed red pepper flakes to school and conspired with her friends to distract the language arts teacher and pour a large amount into her Mountain Dew.

The incident “was in retaliation for the teacher upholding her duties and responsibilities as a teacher, maintaining control of her classroom and attempting to protect the other children (from the student’s unacceptable) behavior,” according to the arrest report cited by the Sentinel.

A very long Volusia County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post on Friday named names and explained exactly how the alleged incident transpired.

“While school officials were able to identify Marjorie (Garrido-Herrera) as the culprit, the Sheriff’s Office’s investigation revealed that two other students were also involved,” the post read.

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“During second period on Tuesday, Marjorie grabbed Morgan’s open can of soda and brought it back to her desk. She then handed the crushed red pepper to Leisy Llanes-Pupo, who dumped it in the soda can. Leisy then put the soda can back on Morgan’s desk. Cristal Tejeda-Castro also was in on the plan, distracting the teacher while the other two were tampering with the soda.”

Morgan took a swig of her soda and her throat began to burn and she had trouble breathing. She took another drink before pouring it out into a clear cup to find the flakes, WNEP reports.

She suffered some stomach pain and a sore throat into the evening. A school nurse who took her blood pressure after the incident noticed it was higher than normal, but noted it was “noticeably lower” about 15 minutes later.

School officials didn’t call police until Thursday, the Sentinel reports.

“I want them to have a consequence that teaches them a lesson,” Morgan wrote in a prepared statement cited by ABC 7. “I did not want them to be arrested and go to jail. Teachers are out there doing the best we can for students. I love my students. They broke my heart. My career won’t be the same.”

Volusia County Sheriff spokesman Gary Davidson said the police investigation “confirmed felony offenses were committed” and the girls were arrested and detained at Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

All of the criminal charges against the students are first-degree felonies, which under Florida law are punishable by up to 30 years in prison.