SALEM, Mass. - Embattled schools Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy pleaded not guilty today to eight charges of fraud and embezzlement and one count of illegal possession of booze on school premises.

Laboy arrived at Salem Superior Court this morning with his face shielded by an umbrella carried by an unidentified woman. The woman yelled to the media "Don't touch him! Don't touch him!" The courtroom was packed with observers, including former School Committee member James Stokes.

Following his arraignment, Laboy was allowed to leave on personal recognizance but had to surrender his passport. He was ordered to report to the Lawrence Police Department to be fingerprinted and photographed.

The superintendent faces eight counts of fraud and embezzlement for allegedly using school workers to do errands at his home, including electrical work, taking out the trash and chauffeuring his son and grandkids around. He also allegedly used school workers to design menus and magnets for his Methuen pizza shop which were printed for free on the schools' $489,000 printing press.

Laboy also faces one count of count of illegal possession of alcohol on school property for the 16 bottles of liquor found in his office during a raid on his offices last June. Several computers and files were taken from school offices. Police also raided his Methuen home on Howe Street.

Laboy's son Wilfredo Laboy II pleaded not guilty to a single count of perjury. He was released on personal recognizance. He left court without comment.

Also arraigned this morning were Israel Reyes, a failed mayoral hopeful and Laboy's political ally, as well as Mark Rivera, Laboy's former right-hand man in the school department. He resigned in April as special assistant to the superintendent after it was revealed he snooped on the backgrounds of hundreds of people using school department software.

According to the indictments, Rivera and Reyes are charged with illegal use of the School Department's graphic design department and printing press. Rivera allegedly instructed School Department graphic designers to produce literature and fliers for then-state Rep. William Lantigua, who is now the mayor of Lawrence; state Rep. Barry Finegold, who ran for Congress in 2007; Reyes, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last fall; and local School Committee candidates Peter Larocque, Greg Morris, Priscilla Baez, who is Rivera's sister, and Omaira Mejia. Investigators said many of the candidates were unaware the printing jobs were being done with school resources on their behalf.

Similarly, Rivera told the School Department graphic designers to produce and print copies of seminar materials, fliers, brochures, invitations and other documents for the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents, a national group Laboy was named president of in 2005, prosecutors said.

Reyes stands accused of directing the School Department graphic designers to print campaign literature for himself and Finegold, prosecutors said.