A Gadsden County teacher was arrested after allegedly taking meth and cocaine before school, passing out at a local Burger King during his lunch break and later masturbating in a hospital exam room.

Guy Raynak, 44, a science teacher at Shanks Middle School in Quincy, was taken to the Gadsden County Jail on one count of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was later released after posting a $2,500 bond, according to jail records.

He was found by Quincy police passed out around lunchtime Monday in the Burger King on West Jefferson Street, according to a Gadsden County Sheriff's Office arrest report. He was taken by ambulance to Capital Regional Medical Center in Quincy.

Gadsden County deputies, who were called to the hospital, were given a sunglasses case that belonged to him containing two torch lighters, a rubber ring, a small bag with about 25 Xanax pills and the crushed remains of an unidentified pill.

"While at the ER, he was behaving very erratically and unusually, he was emptying everything out of his gray duffel bag and spreading the contents all over the floor," the report says.

Raynak asked to use the bathroom and then exposed himself to a nurse, according to the report.

"While he was in the exam room, he was intermittently masturbating, urinating on himself and crawling around on the floor," the report says.

During a doctor's exam, he admitted he took hard drugs before going to school that day and popped a pill on his lunch break. It wasn't immediately clear whether he spent the first part of the day in front of a classroom.

"Upon examination by the doctor, (deputies) overheard him saying he had taken methamphetamine and cocaine before school," the report says. "(He) had left the school at lunchtime and gone to Burger King where he ingested a Xanax pill."

Superintendent: Raynak could return to the classroom

Roger Milton, superintendent of Gadsden County Schools, said Raynak was placed on administrative leave without pay after his arrest. He plans to recommend to the School Board next week that he remain on leave without pay "until such time as the charges are resolved and he completes a drug rehabilitation program."

"We value our employees in Gadsden, so we're hopeful that whatever Mr. Raynak's involvement or situation is, that he would work toward some resolution of it."

Milton said district policy would allow Raynak to return to work because the charge involved possession of a pharmaceutical without a prescription.

"So the policy says under those circumstances, the employee is given an opportunity to participate in the program, and depending upon the court charges and all of that, he could continue his employment with the district," he said.

Milton said he didn't know whether Raynak was under the influence of drugs in a classroom of kids before his arrest.

"The only thing I know is what’s in the report," Milton said.

A teacher without a certificate

Raynak was hired by the district in August, though Milton said he didn't know what grade he taught. Milton also said he wasn't sure whether he had a teaching certificate or was in the process of trying to get one. Raynak's name could not be found in a search of the Florida Department of Education's teaching certificate database

"He may have a temporary, but he does not have a five-year certificate," Milton said.

A district official later told the Democrat that Raynak has a DOE-issued statement of eligibility allowing him to teach without a certificate. DOE could not immediately confirm that.

Raynak is listed under support staff, not teachers, on the Shanks website. He is among several employees whose job titles are not listed on the site.

Milton said he wasn't involved in the hiring of Raynak. He added he met the teacher before but does not know him well.

"He appeared to be a very nice, very personable young man," Milton said. "I'm not aware of any other criminal history or background or problems or any issues."

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