CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Two Murray County educators were arrested on drug-related charges this past weekend and another was arrested earlier this month for driving under the influence of alcohol.

North Murray High School math teacher Richard Edward Seeman and pre-kindergarten paraprofessional Amy Marie Reed were both arrested in separate incidents. Mike Tuck, the Murray County Schools director of administrative services and communications, said both are under contract for the 2017-18 school year.

Reed, 31, was arrested on Friday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office and charged with criminal attempt to commit a felony and use of communications facility in commission of a felony involving controlled substances. According to an incident report, Reed was communicating on Facebook with a woman and agreed to bring her a small amount of methamphetamine and a gallon of laundry detergent.

On Sunday, Seeman, 46, and his wife were arrested after neighbors complained their dogs were loose in the neighborhood. According to an incident report, when officers from the Eton Police Department responded they smelled marijuana. Both Seeman and his wife Jennifer King, 41, were charged Sunday with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of drug-related objects and animals at large.

North Murray cross country coach and Exceptional Student Services teacher John Michael Kiser, 26, was arrested on June 12 by the Georgia State Patrol and charged with DUI, failure to maintain lane, seatbelt violation and expired license plate.

While not commenting on any case directly, Tuck said there are procedures which the school system follows in cases like this.

“We would make an ethics referral to the state at this point,” Tuck said. “In terms of their future employment, that is something we will have to discuss. If you have an employer who is tenured, you have to go through a fair dismissal process. If you have someone under contract, you have to go through a dismissal process.

“These are just allegations, but if the allegations are true, we don’t condone, approve or tolerate that as educators,” Tuck said. “We have to be examples and we have to set the standard.”

According to the incident report on Seeman’s arrest, a neighbor called police to complain of five Australian shepherds loose in the neighborhood. When officers knocked on Seeman’s door and he answered, the officer wrote “I could smell a strong odor of marijuana.”

Seeman admitted he and his wife had been smoking marijuana, but said they had smoked all they had. However, the officer said he could smell unsmoked marijuana and asked where his rolling papers were. Seeman brought back a tray with a grinder and two packs of rolling papers and a small amount of unsmoked marijuana.

A Murray County deputy arrived as well and the report said Seeman gave consent to search his home. In the bedroom, the officer found another plastic bag of marijuana between the bed and the nightstand. Digital scales, two other marijuana grinders and another burnt joint were found in the home.

When contacted on Tuesday, Seeman declined to comment and said he was speaking with an attorney about the matter.

Reed’s arrest came after a third party told Murray County Sheriff’s Office investigators she had been getting meth from Reed and arranged for Reed to bring her “only enough to smoke” of meth and laundry detergent.

An officer following Reed pulled her over for crossing the yellow line on Old Federal Road. After pulling her over, he reported Reed was “shaking (nervous shake) and eating a pint of ice cream at a rapid rate.” Laundry detergent was in the car, but no meth was found, and detectives noted they suspected Reed had eaten the meth.

When asked about the meth she was supposedly delivering, Reed said she was going to the store for a Dr Pepper. But when detectives confronted Reed about her communications on Facebook, she began to cry and agreed to cooperate with deputies.

A number to contact Reed could not be found.