'No bro': Trespassing teacher with drugs and sex toys breaks into school, punches deputy

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — Joe Urias had himself quite a Thanksgiving night, that eventually landed him in a jail cell.

“The more it unfolded, the weirder it got,” remarked St. Lucie County Deputy Eric Holbert.

Holbert lives at Windmill Point Elementary, as one of the several deputies that live on school grounds in the county.

Last Thursday night, the deputy spotted Urias - who is a now former teacher at Somerset College Preparatory Academy - naked inside the school.

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Holbert says when Urias saw him, he tried to grab his clothes and run.

“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.”

Urias is believed to have broken into the school through a window, triggering a silent alarm and police response.

“Ensured that the perimeter was secure, inspected the grounds, didn’t find any forced entry, or signs of burglary and they cleared it at that point," explained Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemczyk. "The deputy living on campus remained behind, and then had the occasion to observe this man inside the school.”

Urias wasn't just naked inside the school - law enforcement says he had marijuana - and sex toys in the classroom.

He also created a make shift 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,” Holbert recalled.

But why was Urias there?

“He said that he was homeless and 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," the deputy shared. "He knew this week that schools were out, so he was going to break into the school and stay there for the week.”

Thankfully, Deputy Holbert and Port St. Lucie Police put a stop to this troubling situation.

“The vulgarity, I don’t even want to get into his mind and think about what he was thinking about," Chief Niemczyk said. "I have no explanation for what he was doing.”

Urias remains in the St. Lucie County Jail, far away from any school classroom.

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