A Northside Independent School District teacher has been arrested and released from jail after investigators said he dropped a baggie of methamphetamine in an elementary school hallway earlier this month.
Daniel Anthony Gonzalez, 38, a special education teacher at Mary Hull Elementary School, was arrested Dec. 6 and booked on charges of felony drug possession and child endangerment, jail records show.
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Staff at the school found a match box with the substance in a hallway, according to an NISD police report obtained by KSAT.
A subsequent review of surveillance footage showed the match box fall out of Gonzalez’s pocket as he pulled out the key to open a classroom, the report said.
Gonzalez entered the classroom without retrieving the match box, records show.
A NISD police officer investigated the box and found a straw, baggie and white crystal substance that resembled Methamphetamine. Further testing confirmed the substance was meth, records show.
“Staff acted quickly to turn in the unidentified item and NISD Police acted swiftly to determine what the item was and its origin,” an NISD spokesperson said via email Tuesday.
NISD police arrested Gonzalez on campus. He was booked into the Bexar County Jail and released on bond the next day, jail records show.
NISD officials said Gonzalez was placed on administrative leave the day of his arrest and submitted his resignation, effective Dec. 20.
Gonzalez was hired by NISD in 2012 as an Instructional Assistant at another NISD campus. In 2013, he became a Special Education teacher at Mary Hull Elementary, the spokesperson said.