The new head of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “rapid response” team has a skeleton in his own closet: a 2013 arrest for drug possession.

Zac Petkanas, who was hired just days ago for the senior post on the Clinton camp’s communications team, was arrested at an Atlanta hospital at 4:55 a.m. Aug. 17, 2013, and charged with possessing methamphetamines, according to a police report.

A nurse who searched Petkanas while he was being admitted to the Grady Hospital found two “small baggies of a controlled substance [in] the right back pocket of the accused,” according to the report.

It isn’t known why Petkanas went to the hospital at the pre-dawn hour.

No further court documents are available, and it wasn’t clear how the case was resolved.

He was working for the Nevada Democratic Party at the time of the bust.

The charges were dropped after Petkanas completed a pre-trial diversion program, according to the Clinton campaign. He also went to a voluntary rehab program in New York to get clean.

“This was a bad choice that he of course regrets,” said campaign spokesman Brian Fallon.

“But the matter is resolved and he has made a full recovery in the years since. We are very glad to have him on our team,” Fallon added.

A veteran of several hard-nosed campaigns, Petkanas will be in charge of responding to attacks on Clinton.