Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area teacher who served seven years in prison for raping her sixth-grade student, finds herself in trouble with the law again, Reuters reported.

Letourneau, 51, was briefly jailed on Monday for failure to appear in court in Tukwila, Wa., over a driving citation she received in 2013 for driving without a license, according to law enforcement officials.

The disgraced teacher was booked in King County jail early Monday morning and was released at 1:05 p.m. on a $5,000 bond, Julie Murphy, a spokeswoman for King County Adult and Juvenile Detention & Community Corrections, told CNN.

Letourneau will appear in court Tuesday, KIRO-TV reported.

The former sixth-grade teacher gained notoriety in 1997 when she was convicted of raping her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau, then a student in her class.

She was sentenced to prison in late 1997, while pregnant with Fualaau's child, after pleading guilty to child rape.

Reuters reported that Letourneau was paroled in January 1998 and barred from contact with him.

The two were caught together in her car at 3 a.m. less than a month after she was released on parole. The former elementary school teacher was sent back to serve the rest of her term in prison, where she bore Fualaau's second child, confirming they had resumed their sexual relationship.

Letourneau was released from prison in 2004. She and Fualaau married the following year, when she was 43 and he was 22.