School district officer resigns after drugs found in residence, deputies say

Some medications found were narcotic-controlled substances

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – An officer with the Putnam County School District Police Department has resigned from his position after drugs were discovered in a residence, authorities said.

Deputies responded to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office parking lot on Orie Griffin Boulevard in Palatka at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 15 in reference to a possible child abuse complaint.

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The Sheriff's Office said deputies met with a 17-year-old girl who said her mother had burned her with a cigarette.

A further investigation of the alleged incident proved it to be a false accusation made up by the girl so that she could go and live with her father, the Sheriff's Office said.

During the course of the investigation, deputies said allegations were also made that her mother's live-in boyfriend, Raymond Streets, 51, had drugs in their home, which he had collected as "evidence" through his job as a Putnam County School District Police Department officer.

The complainant presented photographic evidence of the drugs within the home, the Sheriff's Office said. A search warrant was obtained for the residence in Bardin and was executed by detectives later that afternoon.

Deputies said drugs were discovered in the residence during the execution of the search warrant.

The drugs were later identified as medications which had been collected to be turned in by Streets for destruction at the end of the 2014 school year, the Sheriff's Office said. Some of the medications found were narcotic-controlled substances.

After Streets was interviewed by detectives, the Sheriff's Office said it forwarded a complaint affidavit, detailing charges -- which include one count of grand theft, one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of failure to perform a duty required by an officer -- to the State Attorney's Office for its review.

Streets and has resigned from his position, the Sheriffs Office said.

"Sheriff Gator DeLoach and School Board superintendent Rick Surrency worked together very closely during the course of this investigation," the Sheriff's Office said. "Both reiterated their belief that law enforcement officers must and shall be held to the highest possible standards, and the misuse of authority is unconscionable and will not be tolerated."