A Florida teacher didn’t have much to be thankful for this year. He was arrested on Thanksgiving night after being found naked in an elementary school classroom that was empty. And the school he was found in is evidently not the school where he teaches.
After an altercation with police, the teacher was arrested. When questioned, he told the police he was experiencing homelessness and he was trespassing in the school because he knew it would be empty due to the holiday.
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It was a disturbing thing to discover.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by People, 34-year-old Joe Urias was spotted in a classroom at Windmill Point Elementary School by a sheriff’s deputy from Port St. Lucie County. Police were called about 9:30 p.m.
The affidavit stated that upon seeing the deputy, Urias “quickly clothed himself and began to run toward the back of the building before making his way outdoors,” the magazine reported.
The man had a variety of possessions with him in the classroom.
Urias being naked in an empty elementary school classroom wasn’t the worst thing police found. They discovered that the teacher had sex toys and marijuana, as well as his laptop, food, and clothes. It also appeared he had used classroom items to create a makeshift bed.
“There’s a large pillow that kids sleep on. There was some sort of stain on that. He was naked when I saw him,” St. Lucie County Deputy Eric Holbert told CBS 12 News. “The more it unfolded, the weirder it got.”
There was an altercation between the man and a deputy.
“I identified myself, I held both of my hands up and said ‘deputy sheriff, stop! And he said ‘no bro’ and tried to run through me,” Holbert told CBS12 News. “We tussled a little bit, he hit me right here in the lip, I hit him in the jaw and I was able to hold him with a jiu-jitsu seatbelt grip.”
According to the affidavit, “Several other officers went on scene and aided in placing the male in handcuffs.”
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But what exactly was Urias doing in the classroom in the first place?
Holbert explained that the teacher told him he was experiencing homelessness, which led him to sleeping at the school.
“What he has been doing is teaching at his school and then hanging out at a Starbucks and then sleeping in the public wherever he can,” he explained, per CBS12 News. “He knew this week that schools were out, so he was going to break into the school and stay there for the week.”
He was arrested.
“The vulgarity, I don’t even want to get into his mind and think about what he was thinking about,” Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemczyk told CBS12 News.
Urias, who was a teacher at Somerset College Preparatory Academy before the incident, was arrested. At the time, he was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, burglary of an unoccupied structure, marijuana possession, and battery on an officer, according to the affidavit, People reported. He has yet to be formally charged. Urias is being held at St. Lucie County jail on a bond of $31,000.
